Re: RDi 9.6 is now available!!!

Matt

One thing that seems different about VS and RDi - VS is not built over a platform (Eclipse) that itself drives the kind of environment/package you are working in - the builders of Eclipse, in their wisdom, don't seem to have anything to do a true conversion from one version to another.

Hence, we have to do what is really an install of RDi again, to use the new Eclipse framework.

I guess my main concern is that I might have fairly large directory trees left behind for each earlier RDI version I've had installed. And export/import functionality has kind of escaped me as to how best to use it.

Oh, well! I don't develop in VS anymore, so the question is moot, at least for me.

Cheers
Vern

On 11/17/2017 10:27 AM, Matt Olson wrote:

Agreed. I have to use DBeaver as IBM only provides the notepad of SQL editors. I still have to drop back to the no-longer-supported IBM I Navigator to do some tasks as ACS still hasn't got all the features Navigator had. So basically now I tab through DBeaver, IBM I Navigator, and ACS to get tasks complete. Very poor user experience.

I've never had to reinstall visual studio. Granted I'm running the latest and greatest and have a minimal amount of addon plugins from their extensive online addon repository. Addon plugins can definitely cause Visual Studio issues. For instance I once had the markdown viewer from Mads Kristensen installed, but occasionally it would cause visual studio to crash when you were viewing a markdown file. Uninstalled plugin and no more issues. Didn't have to reinstall visual studio. But figuring out what addon is causing the problem, that can be tricky sometimes.

-----Original Message-----
From: Ken Killian [mailto:kkillian@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2017 12:26 PM
To: Rational Developer for IBM i / Websphere Development Studio Client for System i & iSeries <wdsci-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] RDi 9.6 is now available!!!

Well, my Microsoft co-workers now have problems with visual studio all the time. And they have to reload, which take them 1.5 hours.

On the extremely rare instance that I have to reload RDI, it take me 20-minutes or under! Awesome!

But, comparing MS SQL Server VS IBM Data Studio, Microsoft wins all around...

What to retrieve the sql source? Right-click and retrieve....

Want to see the field name, code-assist is EXCELLENT...

What a quick sql script for the top 100, once again Microsoft wins...

Microsoft is a better User-Experience for develop SQL..

-Ken Killian-

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