Re: Development software and v7.3 of IBM i

"WDSCI-L" <wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote on 02/12/2017 01:00:01 PM:

----- Message from Buck Calabro <kc2hiz@xxxxxxxxx> on Sat, 11 Feb
2017 18:57:42 -0500 -----

To:

"Rational Developer for IBM i / Websphere Development Studio Client
for System i & iSeries" <wdsci-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Subject:

Re: [WDSCI-L] Development software and v7.3 of IBM i

On 10 February 2017 at 15:06, <ChadB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

We are currently planning to upgrade to IBM i v7.3 in the near future.

We

are running the following development products (on Windows servers)

and I

want to make sure they are supported to work along with IBM i 7.3, but
haven't found a definitive link online to verify that yet:

RDi at v 9.1.1.1
Rational Application Developer at v 9.1.1.2

Does anyone have a good link to show compatibility of these products

to

interoperate with v 7.3 of IBM i?

About all I can think of would be the Software Product Compatibility
Reports tool I got there by searching ibm.com for Rational Developer for
IBM i software requirements.

I don't have a link to hand. My group has a wide mix of RDi versions,
all of which have worked on 5.4, 7.1, 7.2, and 7.3. Certainly, the
older RDi won't have the syntax checking for the new RPG, but if
'interoperate' means the ability to connect, edit, and compile, then I
can confirm that RDi 9.1 works with IBM i 7.3.

Why not upgrade RDi too?

+1 (a thousand times--staying current generally yields the best
compatibility)

You're almost certainly entitled to 9.5 if
you have a licence to 9.1... I myself am madly in live with the
rename/refactoring. You can even do that before the IBM i upgrade.
--buck

Michael Quigley
Computer Services
The Way International
www.TheWay.org