Re: justifying RDi when WDSCi 'still works'

I was mistaken. I was sure I had read that the WYSIWYG screen designer
was out of preview status. However, searching my files and the Internet,
I can't find anything of the sort. IBM plainly states on their RDi 7.5
website that the screen designer is still in preview. That really begs
the question as to how long it will be until we have a production ready
print designer. Oh well, sorry about the confusion. That aside, I still
plan to push for RDi (and a copy or two of RDi-SOA) by the time we upgrade
to 6.1.

wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 08/24/2009 11:21:44 AM:

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Re: [WDSCI-L] justifying RDi when WDSCi 'still works'

Sorry it took me a few days to post this response.

We haven't done the WDSC to RDi upgrade yet--we're still on V5R4.

However,

a big selling point I plan to use is the WYSIWYG screen designer. IIRC,

the screen part is out of 'Technology preview--do not use for production

development' status. From what I understand, the print designer is now

in

the Technology preview stage. So you've got the WYSIWYG designer. Then

there's also the Application Diagram function. I had RDi installed for
evaluation and it worked well--giving a view into the structure and flow

of programs and applications. At times, the insight that can provide is

priceless.

In response to Tommy's point about learning WDSC not being worthless: I

agree the learning is beneficial to using RDi. However support for WDSC

is going to stop. (That's only about 8 months away now.) If something
stops working, you have nothing and your investment in learning WDSC is

of

no benefit unless you spring for the $$ to get RDi.

For those of us who've made the complete jump to using the Eclipse-based

tooling, going back to SEU would be a very painful and
productivity-draining affair.