Re: RDi 9.5.1 announced

Wow if I was a Mac user (at work, I am at home) this be like a knife in the gut. I use Verify constantly throughout the day.

Kurt Anderson
Lead iSeries Developer – Application Development, Service Delivery Platform

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I thought that syntax checker would be a huge problem - but having used the Mac version for a while now I have to confess that I have not noticed.

The verifier was something we told IBM to forget about for the Mac version a long time ago. It was going to be the most costly item to port and rarely seems to be used by most customers (including me these days although I used to “live” in it). If it was the “cost” of getting a native Mac version I am more than happy to pay that price. Syntax checker was an unpleasant surprise but ...


Jon Paris

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On Sep 6, 2016, at 11:16 AM, David Gibbs <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 9/6/2016 9:29 AM, Eric Simpson wrote:

For the Mac support, there will be a list of 'limitations' posted on
Friday.

The limitations posted on the announcement are pretty significant, IMO.

Note: Some functions, such as program verifiers and syntax checkers,
are not available on OS X.

Are there _more_ limitations that haven't been announced?

david



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