Re: Why upgrade from WDSC to RDi?

RDi is clearly an improved set of tools compared to ADTS.

The problems encouraging people to switch in my shop are:
(1) We have senior developers, project leaders, and managers that have
been using ADTS tools for 15 years or more. Yes, senior management could
force them to switch, but you have to balance that against de-motivating
some of your longest and most knowledgeable employees.
(2) We have some issues with our environment that create problems with
RDi performance (e.g., our development system is a partition on a
remotely located iSeries running V5R4). Whenever developers try to use
RDi, they often run into problems and decide to switch back. Yes, we may
be able to change and fine-tune our environment, but why do that as long
as the ADTS tools work just fine?

Add to this the licensing issue. We are entitled to enough seats of ADTS
to give all our developers ADTS with no additional costs. Yes, one can
argue that productivity gains with RDi would offset the cost of the RDi
license, but that argument is hard to quantify (especially when the
environment does not allow optimal RDi performance).

I think the developers in our shop would like a tool that gives them (1)
an interface that looks and feels like PDM (and works as efficiently as
PDM in any environment) and (2) the LPEX editor. PDM and SEU are what
they currently use. PDM and LPEX are what they want in a new tool...a
kind of RDi ultra-lite.

Kelly


-----Original Message-----
From: wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Vincent Forbes
Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 8:11 PM
To: 'Websphere Development Studio Client for iSeries'
Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] Why upgrade from WDSC to RDi?

Arguments to use WDSC or RDi are:

How much do you pay for MS office?
Why should programmers be forced to use SEU, which is like using DOS?
Why not give programmers the best tools.

Vincent

-----Original Message-----
From: wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
On
Behalf Of Kurt Anderson
Sent: April 29, 2009 6:04 PM
To: 'Websphere Development Studio Client for iSeries'
Subject: [WDSCI-L] Why upgrade from WDSC to RDi?

All I really know is that it costs money to upgrade. And it sounds like
within a year, it'll be mandatory (if you want your editor to be
supported).

I'm like Buck, I really only use WDSC for RPG, DDS, and CL. I did a
little
searching online and couldn't find why I should pay to upgrade today (vs
the
idea of having to eventually). What can I go to my boss with to sell
her on
this?

Does ctrl-space now show me the value of a constant? Does ctl-space
now
show me the # of decimal positions for a numeric field? Are %Bifs color
coded finally (I'm so jealous of CL's beautiful color coding.) Does the
Verify or Outline refresh run any faster? What I'm getting at - are
there
any changes to the LPEX editor that I, an RPG programmer, would want?

If there is in fact an archived thread, I apologize, and please point me
to
it. I couldn't find it (found a lot of complaining about the cost
though).

Thanks,

Kurt Anderson
Sr Programmer/Analyst
CustomCall Data Systems