Re: Re: RE: [WDSCI-L] WDSC 4.0 Machine Requirements

["Paul Nicolay" <paul.nicolay@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Mark,

The problem is that people today use a mix of tools due to the fact that IBM 
still has no decent IDE for iSeries (WDSc should have been there 3 years ago, 
and not the crippled version we have today).

These tools ranging from Notepad to SEU via whatever slightly more advanced 
piece work fine (however all not that integrated and as nice) on much less 
hardware than what is recently mentioned on this list.

Based on this, even cheap memory and cheap PC's are hard to defend when not 
planned in a budget, and when management asks you how you did it so far.  They 
don't care that you edit a Java source in Notepad or in LPEX.

While I have confidence that WDSc will grow to a nice product (a bit late in my 
opinion), I have other feelings about the adoption rate due to these hardware 
requirements.

Kind regards,
Paul

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 wdsci-l@midrange.com wrote:
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>
>If all you need to do in your job is edit RPG and DDS and you like SEU
>than that is what you should be using.  WDSc was created to assist
>programmers that need to program in a mixed environment of
>RPG/COBOL/CL/DDS plus Java, web pages, web facing etc...  WDSc includes a
>full copy of the WebSphere server so that you can test and debug web
>application on your PC.  These things take RAM and CPU to run, but they
>make it possible for you to do your job better and faster.
>
>I suppose the other market it addresses are those that have purchased
>zero-interactive servers, although in that case I do not see how those
>people would be editing RPG/DDS applications anyway.  Nonetheless, those
>people need tools too.
>
>RAM is cheap, PC's are cheap.  There is no reason that any programmer
>today should not have a 700+ Mhz PC with 512 MB of RAM which is plenty to
>run WDSc.  If you need to run the built in WebSphere server a lot, then I
>would bump that up to 1 GB of RAM.
>
>Mark
>