It's very obvious how you can gain that in such a short amount of time. Once you've gone that way and in fact-in fact for sure the-once you get past that initial learning curve, the value is easily and this has been documented, but I support this 20, 30, even 40% you know, more productivity.
120 days makes it pretty easy to, you know, figure out how to use RDi and my thought is by the time you're done with that 120 days, you're going to want to buy a license because you're going to find it's too difficult to go back to PDM or SU.Ĭharlie: I absolutely agree with that. So we decided that the 120 days makes it available for those folks to go ahead and do it, plus you know it can take some time to get used to, work around, kick the tires. I don't want to go buy RDi necessarily, right? I want to be able to use it for my RPG class.
Steve: Yeah and really the driver behind that was-you know people were asking you know "what about students?" right? I have a class. Now it doubled 120 days, which to me is phenomenal. That is when you download it, you are entitled to a-it was 60 days. So I can't really do anything about that other than help direct those questions to Alison and that team.Ĭharlie: You know one of the greatest things I think that was-the greatest decisions that were made in the last year or two I guess perhaps is the introductory trial. It's that interaction with those resellers, right, or through passport service but again there-there are-on the RDi hub, there is a web page that talks about how to obtain your license, which tells you that it is fairly complicated, right, and again it's outside of our scope.
No the install, like I said, really it's a matter of finding the license jar, right? Once you have the license jar, it's very easy to install the license. It seems-it might seem complicated, but really just follow the instructions and it really does install quite readily. RDi hub does have a great step through of, you know, how to find your reseller, how to find your license, how to do the installs.Ĭharlie: I will tell you that once you get that going, it is seamless. 1 issue is licensing, right? People are saying "where can I find my license?" and it is tricky. We'll have a discussion with them and that's probably their no. You know we do work closely with the teams in IBM, not only the development teams or the former development teams but we also meet with the offering managers like Tim Rowe and Alison on a regular basis you know, so we bring up a lot of these and we meet, you know, every month or so with L1 to support. Steve: No but again we'll take those questions and we'll pass them on. We just do the development of it.Ĭharlie: So any discussions that people might have about license and things like that, that would not be directed to you at all.
We don't-at HelpSystems we don't sell the product. You can also just Google, you know, Rational Developer for i and you can find a seller that will, you know, sell you RDi.
Steve: Well Charlie one of the-one of my favorite websites is the RDi hub, but I also have a YouTube channel where I do 90-second videos and I have the link for actually getting the trial version downloaded, but I'd go to the RDi hub. Steve: Right so we, you know-we come up with the new features, new functions, and any and all of the APAR fixes.Ĭharlie: You know Steve I have a list of questions that I'd like to go over with you but one of the very first questions is a question that I get a lot when I'm out-when I'm out in the field a question that's-that's almost always brought to me is how do I get the product? So once a defect comes in, we're going to handle those, but we don't do the actual support itself.Ĭharlie: Right, so it's pure development of the product. So, I'm basically in a liaison with the IBM Toronto team to make sure that we get all the development and 元 support for RDi.
Steve: Well I am the technical lead for RDi. Can you give a little better idea what that actually means? You know, what does that-what does that title comprise?
So as I read your title here, the principal software engineer of RDi. Glad to be here.Ĭharlie: Yeah, I'm so glad we have a chance to chat and talk about RDi. I'm very happy today to be joined by the principal software engineer and the team lead of Rational Developer for IBM i (RDi) at HelpSystems, Steve Ferrell. Welcome to another edition of TechTalk SMB.