Re: WSDC on Windows 7

I am running RDi 7.5 on 64 bit Windows 7 with no observed problems.

It is running 32 bit with the 32 bit IBM JRE that installs with RDi. I
actually have it installed with RAD 7.5

I installed and run IBM Installation Manager as Administrator
I installed RDi and RAD in C:\Users\Public, NOT C:\Program Files
This avoids problems.

-----Original Message-----
From: wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Thorbjoern Ravn Andersen
Sent: Monday, September 21, 2009 3:26 PM
To: Websphere Development Studio Client for iSeries
Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] WSDC on Windows 7

Pete Helgren skrev:

I don't see any reference to 64 bit OS's on the RDi 7.5 CD
documentation. Every reference specifically points to 32 bit for
Windows and JRE.

Always hard to surmise from one OS version to another. RDi runs fine on
W7 (32bit). I would be surprised if 64 bit was supported for WDSc but
not for RDi. The other way around maybe (in this case NOT) but usually
each version adds better OS support rather than curtailing it.

(Just for new comers :)

The problem here is the GUI-layer in Eclipse which is written as native
binaries and not Java (a very early design decision), and the version of
Eclipse which WSDCi was created with did not have a Windows 64-bit
version of the GUI-layer. In any way you still need the GUI-layer if
you want to run on any particular platform, and if IBM did only create a
32-bit release then it will not run in 64-bit mode (but perhaps a 32-bit
compatability layer, I don't know).