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Mark,

Your mail is what I have been waiting for (for some years), and exacly what I 
have been thinking.

I totally agree with you. I have a licence to 5722-WDS (and all other LPP's) on 
my V5R1 box, but I have no contact to BP's or IBM Support (cant afford it) and 
are then 'excluded' to get new upgrades/versions.

That's why I dont use WDSCi any more - 'cause I'm left behind with too many
'oops' - that in later versions has been changed :-)

Best regards,
Leif

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark S. Waterbury" <mark.s.waterbury@xxxxxxx>
To: "Websphere Development Studio Client for iSeries" <wdsci-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: 13. juli 2006 18:56
Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] why is it so hard to order/obtain WDSCi? (was: Ordering 
WDSC 6.0 from BP - week IV)


Hello, all:

Why does IBM make it so difficult for legitimate customers to obtain the 
latest version of WDSCi ?  Just look at how many different people have 
posted questions about problems in this regard to this list over the 
past year or two ...

At least, with ClientAccess or iSeriesAccess, you could always just 
install or upgrade it directly from the IFS ... once the latest release 
of i5/OS or OS/400 is installed on your iSeries server.  Why can't they 
do that for WDSCi?

 In my opinion, IBM should make WDSCi freely available, via a web site, 
where anyone can download it and install it, etc. -- after all, who is 
going to do that if they do not have an iSeries to use it with? And, if 
that iSeries does not have the WebSphere Development Tools (5722-WDS) 
Licensed Program Product (LPP) installed, then it will not be of much 
use to them anyway.

Furthermore, this would go a long way towards encouraging a new 
generation of programmers, college students, etc., to try it, and learn 
more about iSeries ... ;-)

That's my opinion.

Mark S. Waterbury




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