Re: [EXTERNAL] Liam Alan on using VS Code for COBOL (and RPG and CL)

[Michael Quigley <MichaelQuigley@xxxxxxxxxx>]

If you're paying around $1200 a seat per year, you're spending a whole boatload more on it than you should be. Our annual software assurance for 5 seats is around that.

Michael Quigley
Computer Services
The Way international
www.TheWay.org

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> message: 1
> date: Wed, 10 Aug 2022 20:49:55 +0200
> from: Daniel Gross <daniel@xxxxxxxx>
> subject: Re: [COBOL400-L] [EXTERNAL] Liam Alan on using VS Code for
> 	COBOL (and RPG and CL)
>
> Just to throw my 2ct into this discussion.
>
> I think than VS Code with extensions is a great tool - but als long as you do
> really serious development in COBOL or RPG on IBM i using the "classic"
> source code store in physical source files als members, there is not really a
> way around RDi.
>
> And with yearly licensing around 1200$ per seat (and AFAIK you can get it
> even cheaper) it's no so expensive compared to the machines.
>
> Regards,
> Daniel