Re: RDi

[Jon Paris <Jon.Paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 7-Mar-09, at 1:00 PM, midrange-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> I have a simple question that IBM doesn't seem to be able to  
> answer.  Does
> anyone know if RDi can be installed on a PC that is never connected  
> to a
> remote system and still be fully functional as far as writing RPG,  
> CL, C/C++
> and COBOL are concerned?

"fully functional" - No. You can't compile <grin> - but I assume that  
is not quite what you mean.

Other things you can't do includes verifying anything that needs  
external file descriptions, and that also means that you can't get an  
Outline view either.  But I have and do use it disconnected a lot.  I  
find projects work quite well if I know I'm going to be working  
disconnected for a period of time.

Some of our customers take a copy of their workspace home with them  
and use that so they can work using the file descriptions they have  
cached.

If you are lugging a laptop around of course it is a lot easier.

The main thing to remember is that you must force caching of any files  
you need to use.  Once cached any changes that you make to the DDS for  
that object will of course not be reflected in the cached version.   
That's not to say that a brave soul can't make changes in the cache  
files ...

It has been a long-standing request of mine that IBM supply a simple  
tool to re-generate cache files from the DDS source.  But I've been  
waiting for several years now - with CODE the problem was the complex  
binary format used for the cache - but WDSC/RDi use XML files so why  
it hasn't happened is anybody's guess.


Jon Paris

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