Re: WDSC 7.0 Dead End

[Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This has been an ongoing issue since the product line was introduced. 
IBM ask us to use the product and then makes it nearly impossible to get.

Let me ask a rhetorical question:  Which is more difficult?  Getting the 
product from IBM or getting it from the System i hardware people in your 
own firm?



Eclipse User wrote:
> Only to the unwise does it make any sense.
>
> Regards
> Faizulla Khan
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alan Campin [mailto:Alan.Campin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2007 6:08 PM
> To: wdsci-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [WDSCI-L] WDSC 7.0 Dead End
>
>
> Well, have pretty much given up on WDSC 7.0 until I can order on media.
>
> 1. Cannot use Passport Advantage because requires an account.
> 2. Created a Passport Advantage Account but cannot download from account
> because I am not authorized.
> 3. Cannot get authorized with my ISV.
> 4. Asked my ISV to download and he cannot download it because you cannot
> be part of Passport Advantage unless you pay $1,500!
>
> I don't know who designed this whole system but I know they have a side
> job at "Joe's House of Pain"!
>
> Why can't we just go to an FTP site and download?
>
> It is based on Eclipse and the product is perfectly useless unless you
> have an AS/400 with development tools in which case it is free.
>
> Does this make sense to anyone else?
>
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