Re: IBM is so confusing!

["Schmidt, Mihael" <Mihael.Schmidt@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

For the time being while you have only PDM you might as well try RPG Next Gen Editor (http://rpgnextgen.sf.net). 

I wouldn't want to use PDM either for RPG development. 

Mihael 

-----Original Message-----
From: wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Booth Martin
Sent: Saturday, January 29, 2011 3:06 AM
To: Rational Developer for IBM i / Websphere Development Studio Client for System i & iSeries
Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] IBM is so confusing!

I am facing the same problem, in a different way.

The license for the RDi expired.

I reinstalled Eclipse, now I can't find instructions or the download to 
allow me to use Eclipse to connect to machines.

So now I am stuck with Client Access and PDM.  (I had no idea how used I 
had become to the new IDEs.)



On 1/28/2011 7:17 PM, Jim Franz wrote:
> Since everyone says it's confusing...(to me also)...
>
> IBM - we need a clear picture (do it in html or prefer pdf) - but we need a
> picture of all the components, names, product id's,&  please!!! some clear
> statement of how to get from WDSC (and all it's various components) to
> RDwhatever version...
>
> I've spent hours loading what was in a recent v6r1 shipment (RDsomething
> 7.5) only to find it was a product that has been replaced, and the trial
> period on cd's was expired - could not execute..
> jim franz
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Scott Klement"<wdsci-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To:<wdsci-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2011 6:27 PM
> Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] IBM is so confusing!
>
>
> > So, the product is named "Rational Developer for Power Systems Software"
> > (which alone is too long and cumbersome to really use in a marketing
> > slogan... heck it might even be too long for an elevator pitch.)  But by
> > itself, that name "Rational Developer for Power Systems Software"
> > doesn't actually /mean/ anything, because you also have to specify which
> > of the 4 options you want.
> >
> > The options are named "RPG and COBOL Development Tools",from which,
> > apparently, we have to just assume it's for IBM i, because it doesn't
> > say that.  We also have to know that it contains tools for other things
> > besides RPG and COBOL (DDS, CL, C, C++, etc) because the name doesn't
> > say that either.  Why wasn't this option named "Development tools for i"
> > or something similar?!
> >
> > The other three options tell which languages on which platforms, but are
> > there more that they don't list?
> >
> > At any rate, the whole thing is confusing the point of being unwieldy.
> > It takes a 15 minute talk to understand the name of the product.
> >
> > And how does Java/J2EE/Websphere/HTML fit into all of this?
> >
> >
> > On 1/27/2011 11:53 AM, Edmund Reinhardt wrote:
> > > Hi Scott,
> > > The product name is: Rational Developer for Power Systems Software
> > > And there are 4 separately licensable parts to it.
> > > 1) RPG and COBOL Development Tools
> > > 2) COBOL Development Tools for AIX
> > > 3) C/C++ Development Tools for AIX
> > > 4) C/C++ Development Tools for Linux
> > >
> > > So option 1 corresponds to what used to be available with RDi and WDSc.
> > > The remain options are new function targeting other operating systems
> > > that
> > > also run on the Power hardware.
> > >
> > > HTH,
> > > Edmund
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