Re: Switching to RDI from SEU (was: WDSC V7 Turbo Boost)

I totally agree with regard to the slowness running over the internet.
I want to use RDi but the speed just kills me.

Another thing that rubs me the wrong way is the missing re-factor
feature. When using Eclipse for Java development you can quite easily
rename variables, functions and so on. I know that RPG would be much
more complicated to implement this for given the fixed length fields but
man it would be nice.

Honestly I bet a bunch of people would switch on the strength of that
feature alone if it was available.

James - one way to help might be to use SSH to redirect local ports on
your PC to the AS/400. This will only work if you can get the SSH port
open and the 400 has a recent operating system on it, but it might be
worth looking into.

-----Original Message-----
From: wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of James Perkins
Sent: Friday, January 09, 2009 11:37 AM
To: Websphere Development Studio Client for iSeries
Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] Switching to RDI from SEU (was: WDSC V7 Turbo
Boost)

I haven't followed this old thread, but it took me a while to stop using
SEU. I have no issues with using eclipse I used it for Java programming,
so
that was not a stretch for me.

The reason it took so long for me to switch is it was simply slower than
just using SEU. I do a lot of remote work on different clients, and
writing
the data back and forth over the internet is slow. We also have clients
we
have no VPN to and all the ports needed to use RSE are not opened, so I
simply can't use it.

I tried the switch several times until I finally just took the stand one
day
to use it over SEU no matter what. The only time I use SEU now is when I
can't connect to a VPN and SEU is my only option.

I am curious to here how others handle this though. How do you connect
clients that you don't have VPN access and the ports you need are
blocked.
Maybe there is a way around this I don't even know about.

Thanks in advance,
James R. Perkins