RE: [WDSCI-L] WDSCi Space reductions?

["Bartell, Aaron L. (TC)" <ALBartell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

<Mark>
I hate to say it, but if your boss cannot equip your developers with PC's
that cost under $999, you probably just shouldn't be using PC-based
development tools.  That is not a slam or crticism either.  Your developers
are going to easily burn up a $1000 in productivity using this stuff on old
undersized equipment.
</Mark>

I 100% agree with your statement Mark.  A few years ago when I first started
doing non-green screen development (with RPG and HTML) I counted the seconds
and minutes it took me to do basic tasks on my PC.  Many times my PC would
hang and crash because of lack of horse power (I think I had a Pentium
266MHz with 64MB of Ram).  I moved up to a Athlon 600MHz 128MB of Ram once
my manager realized how much time I was spending waiting for things to
happen, and rebooting.

I am now on a P4 2.0GHz, 512MB of Ram, 40GB HD.  I hate to say it, but I
needed the space and horse power because of the way IDE's and the like are
composed.  For instance I have WDSc and the Microsoft .NET framework and
Visual Studio; that alone takes up about 5 Gig of storage!  YIKES!  But I
don't have a problem paying an extra 10 bucks for that 5 Gig because I get a
ton of features and productivity gains.

Just my thoughts on the matter,
Aaron Bartell

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Phippard [mailto:MarkP@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, May 02, 2003 7:24 PM
To: Websphere Development Studio Client for iSeries
Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] WDSCi Space reductions?



What parts of the tool do you use?

Also, is reclaiming hard drive space really that important?  Most PC's
these days are not tight on disk space.  Removing unused apps will not do
anything to help your RAM or CPU usage (which is where most PC's are
limited).

If you only want to use Code/400 or VARPG, you would probably be safe
deleting the C:\Program Files\IBM\WebSphere Studio folder.  (Assuming WDSC
5.0).

You would probably have to put it back anytime you wanted to apply a
Service Pack or do an uninstall.    I would copy the folder from one PC to
a network server so that I could put it back before doing those things.

I hate to say it, but if your boss cannot equip your developers with PC's
that cost under $999, you probably just shouldn't be using PC-based
development tools.  That is not a slam or crticism either.  Your developers
are going to easily burn up a $1000 in productivity using this stuff on old
undersized equipment.

Mark



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Can anyone tell me if there are any parts of WDSCi that could be removed,
thereby reducing the hard drive requirements?  We will not be using the
JAVA
or web facing portions of the tools and my boss would like to be able to
use
the minimum size PC or maybe even the ones we have.  ;^)

So, I am researching sizes and have really found no references on removing
portions after install, only that there are no choices during install.

Thanks in advance,

Dave  Boettcher
David P. Boettcher CCP
Senior Systems Analyst and Coordinator
Kenosha County Information Services
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