Re: RDP 8.5 Announced

Hi Jon

We totally agree that COBOL outline desperately needs updating.

The AIX COBOL support gets to improve thanks to investment from our sister
product RDz. So IBM is acting as one and code reuse does benefit. We in
Toronto as putting relatively little effort in, for the bang we are
getting.

But nobody else in IBM is going to do a live RPG model. So that is what
our product area focused on. Now that it is in place, it will enable a lot
of rich tooling so that we can get to the same level of productivity as the
Java editing experience.

BTW, I have passed on your request about the Mac.
We appreciate all you are doing out there, Jon.


Regards,



Edmund (E.H.) Reinhardt
COBOL IDE on AIX, DDS, WebFacing, System i Application Development,
Rational Developer for Power



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From: Jon Paris <jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: wdsci-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx,
Date: 06/05/2012 11:57 AM
Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] RDP 8.5 Announced
Sent by: wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx




On 2012-06-05, at 10:51 AM, wdsci-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

COBOL does not have the live outline update (for IBM i). The AIX COBOL
support has been dramatically improved. Please get people to vote for

the

IBM i COBOL live model. The dramatic community support for RPG live
outline RFE made it possible for us to staff up a good team to tackle

this

for RPG. For a while it was the highest voted RFE in all of Rational.

You

guys are making a difference!

That's OK Edmund - COBOL Outline support is next to useless anyway ;-)
There are many, many things it needs before you worry about live update!

Not being mean, but were there really that many RFEs for the COBOL AIX
support that it got all the effort? There's precious little in 8.5 for IBM
i period. Personally I was really disappointed that after all this
community support there was so little content.


Jon Paris

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