Re: justifying RDi when WDSCi 'still works'

[Albert_Slezak@xxxxxxxxxx]

Doesn't RDi have the graphical interface for creating screens and 
printfiles and WDSE uses the CODE/400  or was that just hype from IBM I 
heard. 

      Al Slezak
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David Gibbs wrote:
> Dave Shaw wrote:
> > The few of us who use WDSCi here are trying to convince management that 
we 
> > should purchase a few licenses for RDi now that we've gone to V6R1. The 

> > pushback we're getting is that WDSCi still works fine, so we need to 
justify 
> > spending the money.  Has anyone else successfully done this, and if so, 
what 
> > approach did you use?
>
> > From my perspective, the changes between WDSC 7.0 and RDI 7.5 do not 
justify the cost.
> People at IBM might argue that RDI 7.5 is a total rewrite of the product 
(and I can vouch for that, as I had to do a lot of work to adapt the MKS 
Implementer plug-in to work with both versions), but the the functionality 
is largely the same.

These comments of David's might touch on a currently intangible 
aspect. A rewrite often is needed in order to create a foundation 
for future enhancements.

RDI 7.5 will be followed by RDi 7.(5+x) or RDi 8.0, whatever is 
coming in the future. Will it be easier to jump from WDSCi to what's 
coming in the future? Or will an intermediate RDi 7.x be needed anyway?

Sooner or later, RDi is where it will be. What can be said about 
having some of it in place sooner as opposed to doing it all at once 
some day?

I've often seen messes when upgrades are delayed until they're forced.

Tom Liotta