Re: P.S.: Re: Rational Upgrade questions -- WDSCI-L

Hi Doug

To add to what Mike and others are saying -

Inside the ZIP file you download is a *readme.htm* file - do read it! In there is a caution about using Windows' ZIP extraction tool - I will sometime try Mike's suggestion to Extract All - however, I've never had problems with 7-Zip or WinZip - people have reported problems when using the Windows tool. There's a little more detail in the *readme*.

Here is a YouTube video showing how to install RDi 9.8 - it's by Steve Ferrell, lead developer - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysH7K-dLzBk&pp=ygUmcmF0aW9uYWwgZGV2ZWxvcGVyIGZvciBpIHN0ZXZlIGZlcnJlbGw%3D

Be sure to include everything when you paste that link. Or search in YouTube for this - *rational developer for i steve ferrell* - that brought up this video, as well as a link to several videos Steve has posted.

Also, after you get 9.8 installed, you want to install the 9.8.0.1 and 9.8.0.2 updates - the latter even has something I requested in an Idea that simplifies the delta compare to a file on the toolbar. The YouTube search above listed one for updating to 9.8.0.2 - I believe you have to update to 9.8.0.1 first, his example shows his RDi at that version. But the process should be the same.

Good luck!
Vern

On 10/22/2024 2:31 PM, Mike Hockings wrote:

The permissions get set in Windows where the .zip is extracted so moving is not always the best choice, extract it to where you want it to end up. My recommendation that seems to work for everyone that has tried it is to create a C:\IBM directory and do an Extract All in Windows to C:\IBM which will result with C:\IBM\IBM Rational Developer for i\RDi.exe. The path is short enough that there will be no extraction path issues. Extraction to the C:\Program Files\ tree and some other protected Windows directories will generally end in sadness.

Mike

From: WDSCI-L<wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> on behalf of Daniel Gross<daniel@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Tuesday, October 22, 2024 at 1:46 PM
To:wdsci-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <wdsci-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [EXTERNAL] [WDSCI-L] P.S.: Re: Rational Upgrade questions
P.S.: The best practice to install RDi 9.8 is, to extract the downloaded ZIP file, rename the extracted folder (that contains RDi.exe) and move it to a folder where your user profile has write-permission.

It's also good to have the path quite short, and if possible without Spaces in the path names.

Some examples might be:

C:\RDi98\RDi.exe

C:\Users\username\RDi98\RDi.exe

But that might be some sort of paranoia from my side, as I had some problems with long paths and path names with spaces in them. So your mileage may vary.

Later you can simply make a copy of that RDi98 folder, and rename it e.g. to RDi9802 - you can start each of this installations separately - and you can have as much installations as you like (and you disk space allows).

I always keep the last version for some weeks on my machine - and of course I install BETA versions separately and keep a copy of the last release version.

HTH
Daniel

Am 22.10.2024 um 19:35 schrieb Daniel Gross<daniel@xxxxxxxx>:

Hi Buck,

Von meinem iPhone gesendet

Am 22.10.2024 um 19:06 schrieb Buck Calabro<kc2hiz@xxxxxxxxx>:

Adding to Daniel's excellent reply,

Thanks

may I suggest that you first make a copy of the 9.6 workspace. Call it workspace98 or something. When you start 9.8, point it to this copy. That will leave all of the filters and so on intact in the 9.6 so that you can do a side-by-side comparison if you like.

Yes - and no. A copy/backup of the workspace is always a good thing

But we testet the workspace conversion forward (9.6 -> 9.7) and backwards (9.8 -> 9.6) with some workspaces for hundreds of times, and that part never failed for us.

So it's pretty safe, to use the same workspace with both versions - even if there always pops up a conversion prompt.

When installing a new version, I always make a copy of my workspace. In addition, I like to periodically do a File > Export in case I need to test something against a brand new, unpopulated workspace. If I've already created an export, I can import the bits I want; for example, filters :-)

I have a setup that Zips my workspace and gives it a name with date and time in it. I do this at least twice a week - because you can never know, when you mess up that thing.

Right now I'm working more or less exclusively on 9.8.0.2 - also because the old version doesn't have the new RPG features, that I'm using notoriously - and sometimes I'm driving my colleagues insane with that ;-).

Regards,
Daniel
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