Re: IBM Rational Developer for System i V7.1 -- WDSCI-L

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Rick.Chevalier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

Same here. I have been pushing for adoption since V5 and it's been an
uphill battle the whole way. Yesterday I got a couple more developers
to install V7. This will probably kill it in our shop though.

More discouraging to me was the statement of direction section. If I
read it correctly WDSC 7.0 will no longer be enhanced. It is considered
a 'stabilized' product. To get any of the new features added to the
development tools we have to purchase the IBM Rational Developer for
System i product. Think screen designer and graphical program analyzer
not to mention EGL and other web tools. I have also been actively
promoting WDSC as a platform for beginning web development for some of
our applications. It will be a pretty tough sell now.

It shouldn't be. The goal is for 4 developers on a P05 to cost roughly the same as it does today, it's just that you're going to have to choose the tools you will use. As I said, if you can get off the legacy tools (both the non-ILE compiler and the ADTS tool suite), you will actually save money (not to mention have a more productive shop).

Joe

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