Re: IBM Rational Developer for i 9.9 is announced!

+1.

On Tue, Nov 4, 2025 at 4:33 AM Rob Berendt <[email protected]>
wrote:

> I think they are doing their best to delay working on it.
> Rules for vendors who like to defer spending as long as possible.
> 1 - Never participate in IBM Early Programs.  This takes out waiting for
> the new release to become public as an excuse.
> 2 - Run ancient hardware.  This allows you an excuse that you are waiting
> for a P05 tier of the Power 11 to become public.  Thus your hardware
> doesn't support the new release.
> 3 - Find the next excuse.  7.6 GA now?  Then use one of the next as a
> backup
> 3a - P05 Power 11
> 3b - 9.9 of RDI (again, never join Early Programs, wait for GA)
> 3c - Add vscode to the excuse list for the next release
> 4 - Point fingers at bad comparisons.  Like IBM only releases new versions
> of IBM i every 3 years.  That seems to be good.  Just ignore stuff like
> TR's, cume's, PTF's, etc.
>
> We dropped Softlanding's Turnover solely because of such practices.
> Perhaps it's time to look again.
>
> On Wed, Oct 29, 2025 at 1:20 PM Dan Bale via WDSCI-L <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
> > What?  You didn't like waiting a year (was it longer?) after RDi 9.8 was
> > available before the plugin was ready?
> >
> > I wonder if they'll port the plug-in to VS Code.
> >
> > - Dan Bale
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: WDSCI-L <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Rob
> > Berendt
> > Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2025 1:10 PM
> > To: Rational Developer for IBM i <[email protected]>
> > Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] IBM Rational Developer for i 9.9 is announced!
> >
> > I am using a vendor change management product with RDi.  Can vendors get
> > early access so they can certify their software with this new release?
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