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

The 3rd party vendor is fully responsible. We use another competing plug-in ALDON's plug-in, and it doesn't even work with 9.8, so, we're still stuck at 9.6 because of this, so, I guess I'm saying, at least you have 9.8.


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Apparently, that's the next step. Though you'd think that the RDi team would have tested major plugins to their products before putting this thing on the market. At the very least, they could have tried to determine what was causing the message I was receiving. And you wouldn't think that a "fix pack" would render a previously working plug in useless.

On Tue, Jan 16, 2024 at 6:05 PM Jim Oberholtzer <midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Have you engaged Aldon?
Seems to me to be a reasonable step.


Jim Oberholtzer
Agile Technology Architects

On Jan 16, 2024, at 4:07 PM, Eddie Parker <epj3500@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I have done everything you guys have asked me to do. I cannot run
the

Aldon

Plugin with this fix pack It works just fine with 9.8.0.0 and every
previous version of RDi. I've sent the error messages and so far,
no one has been able to explain why I'm receiving these messages and
how I can

get

the 8.2.700 Aldon plugin to work with this fix pack.

On Tue, Jan 16, 2024 at 9:22 AM Steve Ferrell via WDSCI-L <
wdsci-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi Eddie,

During our BETA, users who had added p2 update sites that target
Eclipse updates had issues updating the BETA.

Eclipse update sites use .../updates in the url, and those are
intended for the current version of Eclipse. Eclipse updates
version every

quarter,

and their component sites are out of date for Eclipse 4.23 after 6
to 9 months.

Using those update sites will replace our Eclipse plugins and cause
the current installation to stop functioning. Requiring a re-install.

As an Example URL via the eGIT repository:
https://download.eclipse.org/egit/updates (usable for 4.26 to 4.30
only and uses Java 17.)

I feel your frustration, and would like to apologize for the
troubles you've already experienced.

We have expanded our BETA program over the past 5 years, but we are

always

looking for new folks. The more diverse setup base we have, the
better releases we have.

If you want to join the RDi BETA team, simply reach out to me via
IBM Support, or contact me directly on LinkedIN.

Steve Ferrell
Principal Software Engineer Lead RDi Fortra
www.linkedin.com/in/steve-ferrell-rdi

Well, the "install new software", "check for RDi updates", "check

for

software updates" options didn't work with this fix pack. I

and others had to uninstall RDi and reinstall it.

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