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

[Justin Taylor <jtaylor.0ab@xxxxxxxxx>]

For Aldon, I'm doing simple filtering.  I have three filters, each with a
single criterion (by developer, object, and task).  The VS Code plugin
can't do task filtering yet, but is scheduled for the next update.

For capabilities, I don't see any difference.  VS Code is tremendously
faster, and I like the RDOi Compare better in VS Code.


Hopefully, RDi 9.9 will enable Copilot, so that'll be good.  Now if only
Aldon would be as fast as VS Code.



On Wed, Oct 29, 2025 at 9:01 AM David Gibbs via WDSCI-L <
wdsci-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 29, 2025 at 7:34 AM Justin Taylor <jtaylor.0ab@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
> > I use VS Code/code4i only for Aldon/Rocket and GitHub Copilot.  I think
> > Aldon/Rocket is better in VS Code than in RDi (except for lookup by
> task#,
> > which is supposed to be fixed for VS Code by year's end).
>
> I find the Aldon/Rocket plug-in's filtering capability to be nowhere near
> as useful as the RDi implementation.
>
> Maybe I'm using it wrong?
>
> IntelliJ plug-in for what?
> >
>
> If I had time, I'd investigate building an IntelliJ plug-in to support IBM
> i development.
>
> david