Re: Still having issues loading iSphere plugin

[Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Cool! Glad it got working for you - I've had my share of hate-hate 
relationship with WDSC and various flavors of RD-whatever over the 
years. now it's more of a love-it-most-of-the-time thing!

Regards
Vern

On 2/19/2016 3:42 PM, Greg Wilburn wrote:
> Vern - that's not what I meant.  I tried to load RDi by downloading the ISO images for the entire product... definitely not the way to go.
>
> I'm good now.. thanks for your help.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: WDSCI-L [mailto:wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Vernon Hamberg
> Sent: Friday, February 19, 2016 3:21 PM
> To: Rational Developer for IBM i / Websphere Development Studio Client for System i & iSeries
> Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] Still having issues loading iSphere plugin
>
> Greg - I believe you just explicitly said you had first tried using "Install New Software" to install RDi, and that's what I responded to - at least that's how I read your post. If I got that wrong, mea culpa.
>
> Cheers
> Vern
>
> On 2/19/2016 12:17 PM, Greg Wilburn wrote:
> > I wasn't talking about installing RDi from there either... I was just explaining my issues installing RDi in general, then a secondary issue of installing iSphere.
> >
> > My only problem right now is pointing install/update to the iSphere URL as opposed to a downloaded zip file.  The latter works fine.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: WDSCI-L [mailto:wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mark Murphy/STAR BASE Consulting Inc.
> > Sent: Friday, February 19, 2016 12:42 PM
> > To: Rational Developer for IBM i / Websphere Development Studio Client
> > for System i & iSeries
> > Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] Still having issues loading iSphere plugin
> >
> > I was not suggesting installing RDi via an RDi Menu option. However, there are several plugins (third party ones for instance) that work from the "Install New Software" option. As far as I know Installation Manager cannot manage those.
> >
> > Mark Murphy
> > STAR BASE Consulting, Inc.
> > mmurphy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >
> >
> > -----Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: -----
> > To: Rational Developer for IBM i / Websphere Development Studio Client
> > for System i & iSeries <wdsci-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > From: Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Date: 02/19/2016 12:06PM
> > Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] Still having issues loading iSphere plugin
> >
> >
> > hi Greg
> >
> > RDi/RDp has not been installable using "Install New Software" for years.
> >
> > As to iSphere, yes, they give us a ZIP file to put into a folder, then
> > we point to that folder in "Install New Software". IIRC, that is!
> >
> > Cheers
> > Vern
> >
> > On 2/19/2016 9:01 AM, Greg Wilburn wrote:
> > > The "Install New Software" is what I was trying to do when I initially posted the question.  That is not working for me (for iSphere only).
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