Re: Rational Developer for i 9.8 hits support discontinuance 30 Apr 2026

Having been an RDi disciple back when it was Code/400 I find myself increasingly using VS code for everything these days. With the Eclipse version being so out-of-date I find that a lot of the extra plug-ins I want just won't work back that far. Since I was in VS Code for Python and PHP it makes more and more sense to stay there for RPG.

For the moment I'm still paying for RDi - but probably not for much longer.

Sad but true,


Jon Paris
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On Oct 28, 2025, at 11:35 AM, Slanina, John via WDSCI-L <wdsci-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Why is 9.9 based on 4.3, that is over 12 years old ? I keep looking at doing the switch from RDI to VSC. There is not much reason to stay with RDI, VSC support all my needs
just retraining ....

Thanks
John Slanina
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Rational Developer for i 9.8 hits support discontinuance 30 Apr 2026
Migrate to 9.9
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