Re: [EXTERNAL] IBM Rational Developer for i 9.8.0.1 fixpack is now available!

I extracted the original 9.8 from the zip file...

A word of warning - if you have the ZIP containing folders with ZIP files for Windows and Mac, you need to use 7-zip to extract. Windows will extract it, but it will fail.

I installed in a new directory and copied my workspace over. Then did the update. I'm at 9.8.0.1 (no idea what the current version is).

So far this has cost me about 4 hours. Now I have to re-install all of my plug-ins.

What a productive Monday.

-----Original Message-----
From: WDSCI-L <wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Eddie Parker
Sent: Monday, January 15, 2024 10:41 AM
To: Rational Developer for IBM i <wdsci-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] [EXTERNAL] IBM Rational Developer for i 9.8.0.1 fixpack is now available!

I had the same issue Greg. Nothing I did would make 9.8 work.
Fortunately, I had retained my 9,6 version. I explained the problem in a ticket to IBM. I showed them the error messages I was receiving. The only "solution" they had was to uninstall 9.8, reinstall it, apply the fix pack, then load any plugins. No one explained what the errors meant. No one seemed to care that a full reinstall would take valuable business time.
They just didn't seem to care. Because the fix pack destroyed 9,8 and I wasn't getting any real help from IBM, I'm in the process of reinstalling 9,8, while using 9.6 for business. I've gotten to the point where I'm able to install the fix pack on a refreshed 9.8. Now I just need to see if the plugins will work with the new version. This never happened to me with any previous version of RDi and it just seems like the IBM development team doesn't care and didn't test this so-called fix before throwing it out.
IBM used to give stellar help. Now, they've gotten as bad as Microsoft.


On Mon, Jan 15, 2024 at 9:04 AM Greg Wilburn < gwilburn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I tried to run the update using "check for updates" on Friday. It
failed... so I just went on about my business.

This morning, when I started RDi I'm getting errors in every view/window:

Remote Systems: "Could not create the View"
Editor: "No editor descriptor for id com.ibm.etools.systems.editor"

Error log show "Invalid input
url:platform:/plubin/com.ibm.etools.iseries.rse.ui/icons/full/eview16..."

Any suggestions??

-----Original Message-----
From: WDSCI-L <wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Eric
Simpson
Sent: Monday, January 8, 2024 9:12 PM
To: wdsci-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [EXTERNAL] [WDSCI-L] IBM Rational Developer for i 9.8.0.1
fixpack is now available!

The fixpack is now available. The Fix List will be updated soon with
details of the enhancements and fixes:
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/fix-list-rational-developer-i

Within RDi, click Help > Check for Updates and follow the prompts.

Alternatively, you can download the fixpack and install it manually.
The download link is
https://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/swg/quickorder?parent=ibm%7ERat
ional&product=ibm/Rational/Rational+Developer+for+i&release=9.8.0.1&pl
atform=All&function=fixId&fixids=9.8.0.1-Rational-RDI-fp&includeRequis
ites=1&includeSupersedes=0&downloadMethod=http&source=fc

Thanks,
Eric Simpson
Software Developer and Project Lead - IBM i Application Development
Tools IBM Systems esimpson@xxxxxxxxxx<mailto:esimpson@xxxxxxxxxx>


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