Re: How many of you will stay at V7R5 lower due to SDA removal ?

Hello Rob,

Am 26.07.2025 um 18:55 schrieb Rob Berendt <robertowenberendt@xxxxxxxxx>:

"Some green screen editor is required".
This may be true, for those rare cases when the system is in restricted
condition and one needs to do a quickie CL to fix something.

Exactly. That's also my current use case.

A prominent IBMer in the IBM i environment gave this reason why IBM has no plans to scrap SEU.

… yet.

However, there seems to be an assumption that all systems have SEU loaded. I can assure you this is false.

Yes. Most often it was not loaded when there was no licensing for it.

For those cases where such CL crisis use may be required EDTF can be counted on to be on all LPARs. And for editing completely free format RPG is just as useful as SEU.

EDTF is capable of opening library members? I've never tried.

Apart from that, comparing SEU to EDTF seems to me like comparing (the original) vi to ed. :-)

:wq! PoC