Is it time to get with the program and get off the green screen for your development? Or at least it time to seriously consider why you should stay there? You may not have noticed but the Rational brand now owns the tools for the I and the days of everything being bundled have gone, which should at least make it much easier to understand what you have and use the right pieces. The tools also take you through the whole spectrum of options of what to do with that boring machine sitting in the corner (ha). Do you want to enhance your skills use your PC and build RPG applicatuions, CL then RDI is what you want.. Or maybe you want to take your application forward expising it to the browser or producing web services, which can be consumed by other applications then HATS for 5250 aplications is your choice. And then taking it a step further maybe you want to enhance and extend your developer skills using EGL, then RDi SOA is your choice. That's a whole load of IBM product names so what does each one contain, and how will it help you?
If you want to code, compile then you must in my view be looking to move to the Rational Developer for System i forget green screen instead get used to this as your weapon of choice. Its a slimmed down version of the tools its been designed to be fast to start and remove all the bloat so you know exactly what you are doing. It sits on Eclipse and comes on 2 CD's for anyone who has installed previous versions of the tools you will know it was easy to create a hanging mobile the amount of CD's that you got.
If you want to go further and begin the process of application modernisation then Rational Developer for System i for SOA Construction (snappy title) or RDi for SOA for short is for you. This introduces the latest version of EGL(Enterprise Generation Language) as well as including the functionality in the base RDi package, and also adds the HATS toolkit.
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