Re: I'm having trouble with RDi and Windows 11

I'm guessing from that, that your company purchased the one-time license 12 months maintenance version. Anything else can be upgraded to 9.8 with no purchase needed.


Jon Paris
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> On Sep 3, 2025, at 5:10 PM, Mark Murphy <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi Jon, Well like everything else, it's a money issue. That and a
> persistent idea that IBM i is old and on its way out. It might just be
> easier to jump to VS Code.
> 
> On Wed, Sep 3, 2025 at 4:34 PM Jon Paris <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> Why not upgrade to 9.8?  At least then if you still have problems you can
>> get IBM support without aguing about updating.
>> 
>> As to Code for i - yes, the SEP works for it now, as with RDi. That said,
>> I have only ever used it to debug batch-type functions - not sure how it
>> works when handling an interactive program. I'm not currently using it
>> because the latest debug extension requires certificates etc., and I can't
>> be bothered to set it up right now.
>> 
>> 
>> Jon Paris
>> [email protected]
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> On Sep 3, 2025, at 4:22 PM, Mark Murphy <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>> We are still using RDi 9.6. I just got a new Windows 11 laptop, and I'm
>>> having trouble installing RDi 9.6 on it.
>>> 
>>>  - The single user install does nothing unless I install as an admin
>>>  user, but that installs into the Admin User's folders.
>>>  - The Admin install appears to work, and I can apply the license pack,
>>>  but when I try to connect to a host, the dialog appears, but it is
>> empty.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Is the only option to upgrade to 9.8?
>>> 
>>> What about VS Code? how does it's debug compare to SEP in RDi. (That was
>> a
>>> game changer for me)?
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