Re: RDi vs SEU

[Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Brad

As to Ctrl-C, etc. - you can have that in the CA/IBM i Access emulator - 
there may even now be a keyboard map with it from IBM, but in any case, 
I have one - and lots more on it - like Ctrl-A for CopyAppend and Ctrl-N 
for PasteNext - some favorite functionality I learned about not so long ago.

I have used WDSC and RDp and RDi in various versions on different 
machines - they have not all been OUR machine.

So I'll give you a qualified "Yes", you can connect to any machine. No 
license issues.

I don't know about the floating license. That seems to use a license 
server, I think I've heard.

And you can work with any reasonable OA version. I suppose it's possible 
some functionality would not be available. And syntax checking, as 
others have said here, is done at the level used in your version of RDi 
- it's not selectable in there for RPG, at least.

Seems to me that if you buy a copy through Passport Advantage, do you 
have to specify a machine?

Main issue to my mind is, are the PTFs up to date that are required?

And are the ports open?

HTH
Vern

On 4/6/2015 8:39 AM, Bradley Stone wrote:
> This has been quite an interesting read.
>
> Especially as someone who would love to use RDi or something besides SEU,
> but just doesn't (mainly because of price and I've never had good luck with
> IBM bloatware and refuse to use CA/IBM i Access until they get Ctl-C, V and
> P to work like any other program in the WORLD).
>
> I can't recall if this was covered, but for someone like me with my own IBM
> i and also working with many customers and OS versions I'm trying to decide
> what's best.
>
> If I purchase a single copy of RDi and pay maintenance fees can I use that
> on one of many machines (ie, my personal box, a cloud box, one of many
> customer's boxes, etc) or is it tied to a specific IBM i?
>
> Customers also range from V5R2 to V7R2 so that means the version of RDi I
> would need would be old and "not supported".  Or I'd need 2 versions
> installed (is that two licenses?)
>
> Brad
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