The SAGA or is it Soap Opera Continues

Hi Frank,

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I have in fact got management to pay up $2K (AUS$) per seat.
This will be rolled out with the upgrade to V6R1, scheduled for
Feb next year.
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We are running V5R4 and used WDSCi 7.0 up to a couple of months ago. We then stumped up the cash for RDi 7.5. A couple of weeks ago we locked down PDM and SEU. Only SDA is available. All of our developers now exclusively use RDi with the Aldon plug-in and X-Analysis.

Got to say, we didn't pay anywhere near $2K (AUS$) per seat for our licences and we are based in Brisbane, Australia.

We have had no major problems using SQL in WDSCi 7.0 or RDi 7.5. We use SQL all the time. We use Tables and Views in queries. We also write and use a lot of UDFs - no dramas at all. I would certainly suggest you check your PTF levels and download the trial version of RDi 7.5. My opinion? Forget WDSCi (at any level) - retrieving, installing and using WDSCi V7.0 is a waste of time for you if you are going V7.5 anyway) Just get the latest RDi trial version. What will WDSCi 7.0 tell you if it doesn't work with that? You still don't know if it will work with RDi 7.5 - the one you will be using into the future.

Even if you continue to have issues with your SQL, I believe RDi 7.5 is a fabulous IDE, and sssssooooo much faster than WDSCi 7.0. you will definitely see productivity gains.
If you would like to go through this with me then please contact me off-list and I will call you on Monday. We can then go through the PTF levels on both our machines to see what you may be missing. But without a shadow of a doubt - dump WDSCi 6.0. You can't realistically expect take-up from your guys using that as your IDE showcase.


Cheers

Larry Ducie



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