Navigating IBM's websites and figuring out their product offerings... Sheesh

[Mr. K.V.B.L.]

So I downloaded a trial version of "IBM Rational Developer for Power
Systems Software", version 8.0.3, and I tried to create a remote C++
project and my only options are AIX or Linux. I care about neither of
those platforms. I want to test creating C++ & RPG projects for a
System i. Am I doing something wrong? I don't use an Eclipse-based
environment yet but am pushing for it before we go and hire a bunch of
new people. We use Rational Application Developer 7.5 (Websphere)
which does me no good as my area of responsibility is background
transaction processing with C/C++.

Sounds like I downloaded the right tool... maybe I just haven't hit
the right option yet.

"IBM® Rational® Developer for Power Systems Software™ provides
integrated development environments for the major development
workloads on IBM i, AIX®, and Linux®, including Java, C/C++ on AIX and
Linux, COBOL on AIX, and RPG, COBOL, C, and C++ on IBM i."

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/downloads/r/rdp/?S_CMP=rnav

Kelly Beard

[CRPence]

On 27-Jan-2012 09:34 , Mr. K.V.B.L. wrote:
> So I downloaded a trial version of "IBM Rational Developer for Power
> Systems Software", version 8.0.3, and I tried to create a remote C++
> project and my only options are AIX or Linux. I care about neither

> of those platforms. I want to test creating C++ and RPG projects for

> a System i. Am I doing something wrong? I don't use an Eclipse-based
> environment yet but am pushing for it before we go and hire a bunch
> of new people. We use Rational Application Developer 7.5 (Websphere)
> which does me no good as my area of responsibility is background
> transaction processing with C/C++.
>
> Sounds like I downloaded the right tool... maybe I just haven't hit
> the right option yet.
>
> "IBM® Rational® Developer for Power Systems Software™ provides
> integrated development environments for the major development
> workloads on IBM i, AIX®, and Linux®, including Java, C/C++ on AIX
> and Linux, COBOL on AIX, and RPG, COBOL, C, and C++ on IBM i."
>
> http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/downloads/r/rdp/?S_CMP=rnav
>

For reference only, that link is from the "Trial" link at:
http://www.ibm.com/software/rational/products/rdp

In "Features and Benefits" from that link [above], there is a note
about a feature described as "Flexible packaging", suggesting there is
"Separately orderable development tools for C/C++ on Linux (New) and
AIX, for COBOL on AIX, and for RPG and COBOL on i."

At the following link J Pluta suggests that an additional feature
code is required to obtain the "Tools for i" for RPG [and COBOL]:
_Rational Application Developer questions_
http://archive.midrange.com/wdsci-l/201111/msg00132.html

I am not sure how that applies to the "Trial" version 8.0.3 from the
above.

Also in that prior noted message thread, there is reference to an
article claiming to provide "a good introduction to the whole Rational
product suite as it pertains to IBM i development"; note: I have not
even visited that link:
http://archive.midrange.com/wdsci-l/201111/msg00131.html
http://www.mcpressonline.com/programming/dev-tools/practical-rdpi-navigating-the-rational-product-sea.html

HTH :-)

Regards, Chuck