RE: [WDSCI-L] WDSc workstation requirements

[CWilt@xxxxxxxxxxxx]

Doug,

You can't find such recommendations on IBM's site.

I'm in the same boat as you which is why I included the plea to IBM for
usable minimum requirements in my original email.

Charles


> -----Original Message-----
> From: DBelcher@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:DBelcher@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2004 12:40 PM
> To: wdsci-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [WDSCI-L] WDSc workstation requirements
> 
> 
> Joe,
> 
> Good information but where do I go on IBM's web site to get 
> something printable to use to justify to my management?  I 
> have had a couple of push-backs as to why I need 1G on my 
> desktop and if I can give it to them in writing I would have 
> a much easier time of it.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Douglas Belcher
> KV Pharmaceutical
> St Louis,  MO
> Opinions expressed are not necessarily those of my employer
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joe Pluta [mailto:joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2004 11:01 AM
> To: 'Websphere Development Studio Client for iSeries'
> Subject: RE: [WDSCI-L] WDSc workstation requirements
> 
> 
> > From: CWilt@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> > 
> > It seems that the consensus is 512 or RAM minimum and 1024 
> if you can
> get
> > it.
> 
> You'll need 512MB if you're just using WDSc as an RPG source 
> editor.  If
> you plan on using the WebSphere Test Environment or just about any of
> the other features of WDSc, 1GB is the realistic minimum.
> 
> 
> > What about CPU?  Is a 750Mhz Pentium III notebook going to 
> be useable
> for
> > RPGLE?
> 
> Interesting thing about laptops - you'll find that the processor won't
> make all that much of a difference because except on higher end units
> they usually have incredibly slow (5400RPM) disk drives.  So, since I
> suspect you have slow drives, 750MHz won't add that much more 
> suffering.
> But suffer you will; disk intensive procedures like switching
> perspectives will be agonizingly slow at times.
> 
> 
> Were you to have a decent disk drive (7200RPM or better) and 
> enough RAM,
> then your next bottleneck would be CPU and at that point I'd recommend
> at least 2GHz, since they're pretty standard these days.
> 
> 
> Thus, my recommendations:
> 
> 512MB, 5400RPM, 500MHz will WORK for basic editing.  But that's all it
> will do, and it won't be particularly fast, and it will die 
> once you try
> anything else.
> 
> For everything else, or for a relatively snappy interface during
> editing: 1GB, 7200RPM, 2GHz.
> 
> 
> Joe
> 
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