Re: From My Wish List

[Sam_L <lennon_s_j@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm curious if those interested in this thread have considered the 
existing commercial products available, such as Aldon, Softlanding and 
MKS (there may be others).  Don't they all do build, promote and deploy?

I took a brief look at the RTC Package and Deployment article but I 
couldn't quickly determine if RTC knows to deploy in the right order 
(e.g. PF before LF, files and display files before modules and program). 
 Sophisticated deployment is already built into the existing commercial 
products.

I understand price and maintenance may be an issue.  If any of the 
commercial folk are looking in, they might think about some kinds of 
usage based pricing in an attempt to get to the small shop market.

Sam

On 4/1/2014 9:54 AM, Edmund Reinhardt wrote:
> I am amazed at how unknown the RTC EE build facilities are.  A lot of work
> has gone into these over the past couple of releases,
> But then again I see that IBM stealth marketing has hidden this quite well
> as it is not obvious how to discover this on the web.
>
> Here are some more links you can see details, tutorials on RTC EE
> build/promote/deploy/packaging for IBM i
>
> IBM i Dependency Build Video:  https://jazz.net/library/video/1074
> IBM i Dependency Build Article: https://jazz.net/library/article/1095
>
> IBM i Package and Deployment Video: https://jazz.net/library/video/1351
> IBM i Package and Deployment Article: https://jazz.net/library/article/1312
>
> You can find links to useful content on this Useful Links page.  Its a mix
> of IBM i and z/OS as some things are common:
> https://rtcee.wordpress.com/useful-links/
>
> The RTC EE build uses Ant under the covers and has a dependency discovery
> mechanism and does intelligent delta builds.  But I still think that RDi
> can help more with building  the PGM the first time.  One of the many
> things I would love to do.  I imagine this provides serious friction to
> adoption of ILE.
> Also ARCAD has tooling in this space as well, so IBM RTC is not the only
> game in town as well as others like Turnover, Softlanding.
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Edmund (E.H.) Reinhardt
> Technical Architect for Rational Developer for i