Hello Brian,
Again thanks for the info - you seem to be well aware of this RDz so I'll
try my luck again.
I don't expect RDz to create VSAM KSDS files for me. My old COBOL/CICS came
with Pervasive's bTrieve into which I fed sequential files and out came
emulated VSAM KSDS's and my COBOL/CICS programs successfully accessed them.
Am hoping to hear that RDz does something like this . . I thought I had read
(but can't find now) that there was a VSAM File Manager 'thing'. Is clear
that with PC DB2 V9 such access is possible. Might you know about this?
I am at my cottage for the next three months, 1000km from my home, high
speed access and the retailer who sells me laptops from time to time (. .
and there if troubles).
So getting another laptop with the kind of capabilities you suggest is not
that simple. Dialup speed at the
cottage also probibits much. So a) having an appropriate computer, b) being
able to download the 60 day
trial are problems.
The local one room library has a Vista Compaq with .5 meg of RAM - they will
find your comments about
RAM/Vista/speed very interesting. It has 'high-speed' capability via what I
don't know yet. But when I tried to download OpenOffice the time window said
it would take three hours. I called my retailer and he said it should be
3-10 minutes! So this is their 'high-speed' - am looking into it.
What's crossing my mind is a) make sure RDz does what I want, b) buy the CD
media pack, c) load in onto my average PC, d) plan on not using the IDE
(guessing this to be the hog and not why I need RDz), e) build the permanent
solution when I get home.
Did I burden you or what:-))). Have you got RDz on a PC?
Many thanks
Graham
----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Westerman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, June 06, 2008 8:41 PM
Subject: Re: RDz
Hi,
You can use it to build applications that access VSAM, but I don't think
it
generates VSAM files on your PC if that's what you are asking. There is a
debugger, and it's pretty nice.
I do agree that you don't want to be running this on a old Pentium 3 or 4,
you should have at least a Dual Core PC (or laptop), with a minimum of 2GB
of memory, (if you're running Vista, get 4GB), memory is very cheap (if
you
have the free slots), and places like BUY.COM and OUTPOST.COM (as well as
many others) have sales almost every other week for 2GB at about $50 or
less, so loading up is cheap, but if you have Win/XP then more than 2GB is
just a waste.
You are correct in the the $800 is for the entire catalog, (hundreds of
programs), for the full year, but it's only a good deal if you can use
them.
I still urge you to do the 60 day trial first to make sure it's going to
work for you, the Value Option upgrade option only takes a day or two to
apply for and get, and if you can't tell if it will work for you in the
first 30 pr 40 days then you probably don't need what it can offer anyway.
Let me know if I can help you.
Brian
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