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Re: system requirements to install RDi

Hi Buck and Jon

Many thanks for your replies.
At least I know what to advise to the customer.

And I am glad I was ot the only one getting lost in the different links in
the RDi documentation, ending up finding no hardware requirements.


Kind regards

Liliane Van Winckel
Expert Software Engineer
+32 496 90 24 56
l.vanwinckel@xxxxxxxx - www.easi.net





From: "Buck Calabro" <kc2hiz@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "Rational Developer for IBM i" <wdsci-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 22/10/2022 16:26
Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] system requirements to install RDi
Sent by: "WDSCI-L" <wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>



Hi Liliane,
You're right - finding minimum hardware requirements is far more
difficult than it needs to be.

When my infrastructure people need to set up a VM for something like
this, I give them the specs for the PC I usually use to run RDi. I
find that RDi runs better with 16Gb of RAM, but it will run Win 10 on
8Gb if it has to.

For a fun time, maybe someone can use the following as a starting
point for...improving the process.
I started here:
https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/rdfi/9.6.0?topic=installation-requirements
Clicking on 'Hardware and Software Requirements' takes me to
https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/rdfi/9.6.0?topic=requirements-hardware-software

That leads me to
https://www.ibm.com/software/reports/compatibility/clarity/index.html
where there's apparently One Site For Everything.
I'm not entirely sure I know how to navigate this, but I went to the
Hardware Requirements link on the left.
That gives me a page with multiple choices - I searched for 'rational
developer' and then made sure that all of the other checkboxes were
selected.
Click on 'Detailed system requirements'.
Now there's a list of operating systems. You can click those to see
what OS is supported. But at the top is a tab for Hardware. So I
clicked that.
Where they reaffirm that there are 'No hardware requirements specified.'

Good luck.
--buck

On Fri, 21 Oct 2022 at 16:57, Jon Paris <jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Ask for 16Gb of memory, accept 8 if they don't wanna go that high.
Storage requirement is negligible. Beyond that we'd have to know what
other criteria they need to make any suggestions. As I said even the
cheapest of-the-shelf Windows machine has more than enough horsepower to
run it - even on a 4Gb machine.


Jon P.

On Oct 21, 2022, at 1:56 PM, l.vanwinckel@xxxxxxxx wrote:

Hi Jon
This is for a customer that does not want us to connect with our pc.
They provide a VM in their network that we should use to maintain
their
programs.
So I think in this case these requirements remain relevant, because
they
determine how the VM has to be dimensioned.
Kind regards
Liliane

Verzonden vanaf mijn iPad met HCL Verse


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Op 21 okt. 2022 19:25:40, schreef [1]jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx:

From: [2]jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
To: [3]wdsci-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc:
Date: 21 okt. 2022, 19:25:40
Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] system requirements to install RDi


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I suspect that IBM gave up updating this information because pretty
much any computer that you can buy today (and indeed for the past 5 years
plus) that can run Mac OS, Windows, or Linux can run RDi.

It is a Java based application and therefore uses more CPU and memory
than some other software but 8gb of memory and a CPU build in the last 8
years or so should be enough.

What system are you looking to run it on
?


Jon P

On Oct 21, 2022, at 11:31 AM, l.vanwinckel@xxxxxxxx wrote:

Hi

Does anyone know where to find the actual system requirements for an
RDi
installation ?

All of the links I saved before, redirect me to a page where I can
not
find the info I am looking for.
This info used to be clearly visible in one of the main pages of RDi.
Google also does not help me anymore on this subject.


By the way : Many thanks to the people replying the questions in this
mailing list.



Kind regards

Liliane Van Winckel
Expert Software Engineer
+32 496 90 24 56
l.vanwinckel@xxxxxxxx - www.easi.net

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