Re: system requirements to install RDi

[l.vanwinckel@xxxxxxxx]

Hi Buck and Jon

Many thanks for your replies.
At least I know what to advise to the customer.

And I am glad I was ot the only one getting lost in the different links in 
the RDi documentation, ending up finding no hardware requirements.


Kind regards

Liliane Van Winckel
Expert Software Engineer 
+32 496 90 24 56
l.vanwinckel@xxxxxxxx - www.easi.net





From:   "Buck Calabro" <kc2hiz@xxxxxxxxx>
To:     "Rational Developer for IBM i" <wdsci-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date:   22/10/2022 16:26
Subject:        Re: [WDSCI-L] system requirements to install RDi
Sent by:        "WDSCI-L" <wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>



Hi Liliane,
You're right - finding minimum hardware requirements is far more
difficult than it needs to be.

When my infrastructure people need to set up a VM for something like
this, I give them the specs for the PC I usually use to run RDi. I
find that RDi runs better with 16Gb of RAM, but it will run Win 10 on
8Gb if it has to.

For a fun time, maybe someone can use the following as a starting
point for...improving the process.
I started here:
https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/rdfi/9.6.0?topic=installation-requirements
Clicking on 'Hardware and Software Requirements' takes me to
https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/rdfi/9.6.0?topic=requirements-hardware-software

That leads me to
https://www.ibm.com/software/reports/compatibility/clarity/index.html
where there's apparently One Site For Everything.
I'm not entirely sure I know how to navigate this, but I went to the
Hardware Requirements link on the left.
That gives me a page with multiple choices - I searched for 'rational
developer' and then made sure that all of the other checkboxes were
selected.
Click on 'Detailed system requirements'.
Now there's a list of operating systems. You can click those to see
what OS is supported. But at the top is a tab for Hardware. So I
clicked that.
Where they reaffirm that there are 'No hardware requirements specified.'

Good luck.
  --buck

On Fri, 21 Oct 2022 at 16:57, Jon Paris <jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Ask for 16Gb of memory, accept 8 if they don't wanna go that high. 
Storage requirement is negligible. Beyond that we'd have to know what 
other criteria they need to make any suggestions. As I said even the 
cheapest of-the-shelf Windows machine has more than enough horsepower to 
run it - even on a 4Gb machine.
> Jon P.
>
> > On Oct 21, 2022, at 1:56 PM, l.vanwinckel@xxxxxxxx wrote:
> >
> >   Hi Jon
> >   This is for a customer that does not want us to connect with our pc.
> >   They provide a VM in their network that we should use to maintain 
their
> >   programs.
> >   So I think in this case these requirements remain relevant, because 
they
> >   determine how the VM has to be dimensioned.
> >   Kind regards
> >   Liliane
> >
> >   Verzonden vanaf mijn iPad met HCL Verse
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> >   Op 21 okt. 2022 19:25:40, schreef [1]jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx:
> >
> >   From: [2]jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >   To: [3]wdsci-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >   Cc:
> >   Date: 21 okt. 2022, 19:25:40
> >   Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] system requirements to install RDi
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> > I suspect that IBM gave up updating this information because pretty 
much any computer that you can buy today (and indeed for the past 5 years 
plus) that can run Mac OS, Windows, or Linux can run RDi.
> > It is a Java based application and therefore uses more CPU and memory 
than some other software but 8gb of memory and a CPU build in the last 8 
years or so should be enough.
> > What system are you looking to run it on
> > ?
> >
> >
> > Jon P
> >
> > > On Oct 21, 2022, at 11:31 AM, l.vanwinckel@xxxxxxxx wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > Does anyone know where to find the actual system requirements for an 
RDi
> > > installation ?
> > >
> > > All of the links I saved before, redirect me to a page where I can 
not
> > > find the info I am looking for.
> > > This info used to be clearly visible in one of the main pages of RDi.
> > > Google also does not help me anymore on this subject.
> > >
> > >
> > > By the way : Many thanks to the people replying the questions in this
> > > mailing list.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Kind regards
> > >
> > > Liliane Van Winckel
> > > Expert Software Engineer
> > > +32 496 90 24 56
> > > l.vanwinckel@xxxxxxxx - www.easi.net
> > >
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