WDSC Updates

["Joe Pluta" <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I know Jon Paris had some problems with the update process, and I remember
having some serious difficulties myself a few months ago.  Even today, I'm
still a little concerned about the disconnect between WDSC and Rational, and
it's a little bit of a pain to download nearly 2GB of patches for the 6.0.1
release, but those are annoyances not really issues and I'm not writing this
to complain about them.

Instead, I want to give huge props to the Rational/WDSC team for making this
process work.  When I tried this the last time, it was all but impossible to
download fixes and install them later.  When I explained the problem, it was
clear to me that IBM took the issue seriously, but given the amount of work
involved, I was still concerned.

Well, in the last week I've updated three separate machines to 6.0.1, and it
went flawlessly.  The instructions for the fix packs were clear (whoever
came up with the HTML instruction page in the ZIP file is a genius), and
while the download and update processes were somewhat lengthy, they went
without a hitch.

Thank again to everyone involved in this.  I hope to be able to bring this
up in some articles very soon.

Joe