I stumbled across announcement ENU909-087 (from April 14, 2009) this
morning while I was looking for the April 28 announcements.
"Software withdrawal and service discontinuance: IBM Rational
products - No replacements available"
http://www.ibm.com/common/ssi/rep_ca/7/897/ENUS909-087/ENUS909-087.PDF
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Effective on the dates listed below, IBM will withdraw support from
the following product release(s) licensed under the IBM International
Program License Agreement:
Program VRM Withdrawal Program release name
number from
support
date
5724-A81 7.0.0 04/30/10 WebSphere® Development Studio Client for
iSeries
5724-G52 7.1.0 04/30/10 Rational Method Composer
5724-H44 2.0.0 04/30/10 COBOL for AIX
5724-J96 6.1.0 04/30/10 Ratl Perf Tester Ext for Citrix
5724-J97 7.0.0 04/30/10 HIS for System i®, Concurrent
5724-J98 7.0.0 04/30/10 HIS for System i, Authorized
5724-J99 7.0.0 04/30/10 HIS for Multiplatforms, Concurrent
5724-K00 7.0.0 04/30/10 HIS for Multiplatforms, Authorized
5724-L02 7.0.0 04/30/10 Host Access Transformation Services for
Multi
5724-L44 7.0.0 04/30/10 IBM WebSphere Developer for System z
5724-M10 6.0.1 04/30/10 Rational Systems Developer
5724-N52 7.0.0 04/30/10 IBM WebFacing Deployment Tool for WDS
iSeries
5724-N92 6.0.1 04/30/10 Ratl COBOL Generation Extension for
zSeries
5724-Q61 7.0.0 04/30/10 IBM Rational Build Forge® Enterprise
Edition
5724-Q62 7.0.0 04/30/10 IBM Rational Build Forge Standard
Edition
5724-S50 7.0.0 04/30/10 Rational Business Developer Extension
"""
-----Original Message-----
From: wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Buck
Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 5:29 PM
To: wdsci-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [WDSCI-L] WDSC sunset, RDi to replace it
Hi Bob!
Replies inline.
Bob Cancilla wrote:
End of Service will occur on April 30, 2010 for WDSC 7.0 and was announced
on March 25, 2008 in announcement 908-049 which may be found at:
http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/ShowDoc.jsp?docURL=/common/ssi/rep_ca/9/897/ENUS908-049/index.html&breadCrum=DET001PT022&url=buttonpressed=DET002PT005&specific_index=DET001PEF502&DET015PGL002=DET001PEF011&submit.x=7&submit.y=8&lang=en_GB
I double checked before I posted and I did not see a reference to WDSC
7.0.0 Standard Edition in 908-049 or on the WDSC 7.0.0 Standard Edition
product support life cycle page.
I do see references to the WDSC 7.0.0 ADVANCED edition though.
My only point (and maybe it's a gripe) is that WDSC is a product still
in support and that the RTCi documentation does not appear to indicate
that it works with WDSC. Xuan gently reminded me to look at the RPG
Café, which I tentatively did, but I haven't seen a reference there to
WDSC yet either.
The issue is a selfish one, yet I think it might apply to many. I can't
upgrade to RDi yet - it's not in the budget. The new pricing model will
cost us money and we're in cut-back mode.
RDi is the replacement product. RDi is not just another version of WDSc,
but is a new product written from scratch over Open Source Eclipse 3.4 as a
base. If it looks like WDSC it is because the features of WDSC were
implemented in RDI with many new enhancements on each feature of the
product.
I'm an RPG, CL and DDS-only programmer.
This product is a direct response to customers telling us that WDSC was too
big had too many features and needed better performance.
How has the uptake been? Have you seen many brand new RDi customers or
are they mostly upgrades from WDSC?
--buck
midrange.com
