Category:Rational Developer

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Rational Developer, an acronym for WebSphere Development Studio Client for System i, is a robust, Windows-based, integrated development environment (IDE) based on the open source Eclipse project that is customized for System i developers. WDSC's predecessor was Code/400. The current product replacing WDSC is Rational Development for Power Systems for i, generally called RDi for the sake of brevity.

The contents of this page are retained for historical reference, but much of the content applies to RDi as well.

WDSC has support for editing various types of files...

Additionally, it contains...

WDSC has been superseded in i 6.1 by IBM Rational Software Delivery Platform for System i WDSC was originally still orderable in i 6.1, but as of April 2010, WDSC is no longer supported [1]. RDi 7.6.0 is no longer supported as of Sep 30, 2015. [2] An alternate (older) acronym for RDi is RDp.

Plug-Ins

WDSC/RDi/RDp use the same plug-in mechanism as Eclipse (since they are based on Eclipse), with some modifications to support the RSE.

A number of vendors have plug-ins for their specific product, and there are some open-source plug-ins available. See WDSC/Plugin.

Compatiblity

In general ...

  • Plug-in's designed for Eclipse 3.2 will work with WDSC 7.0 and RDi 7.1
  • Plug-in's designed for Eclipse 3.4 will work with RDi 7.5 and RDp 7.5 & higher.

NOTE:

  • Plug-in's designed for WDSC 7.0 and RDi 7.1 are compatible.
  • Plug-in's designed for RDi 7.5 and RDp 7.5 & higher are compatible.

Version history

This version history needs review![verification needed]

Tool name Tool version Availability date i5/OS version Eclipse version Fix list
ADTS CS/400 V3R1? V3R1 -- --
ADTS CS/400 V3R2 V3R2 -- --
ADTS CS/400 V3R7 (unchanged from V3R6?) 1995? V3R7 -- --
ADTS CS/400 V3R7 (unchanged from V3R6?) 1996? V4R1 -- --
ADTS CS/400 V4R2 1997? V4R2 -- --
ADTS CS/400 V4R2 1997? V4R3 -- --
ADTS CS/400 V4R4 1999? V4R4 -- --
ADTS CS/400 V4R5 2000? V4R5 -- --
WDS V5.0 January 2003 V5R1 -?? --
WDS V5.0, 5.1 January 2003 V5R2 -?? --
WDS V6.0 May 2004 V5R3 3.0 --
WDSCi 7.0 January 2006 V5R4 3.2 Callisto --
RDi 7.1 January 2008 6.1 3.2 Callisto --
RDi 7.5 October 2008 6.1 3.4 Ganymede --
RDp 7.5 February 2010 6.1 3.4 Ganymede? --
RDp 7.6 April 2010 7.1 3.4 Ganymede --
RDp 8.0 Oct 2010 ? 7.1 3.6 Helios --
RDp 8.0.3 Oct 2011 7.1 3.6 Helios --
RDp 8.5 July 2012 7.1 3.6 Helios --
RDi 9.0 June 2013 7.1 4.2 Juno 7038481
RDi 9.0.1 December 2013 ? 7.1 4.2 Juno 7038481
RDi 9.1 May 2014 7.2 4.2 Juno 7038481
RDi 9.1.1 December 2014 7.2 4.2 Juno 7038481
RDi 9.1.1.1 March 2015 ? 7.2 4.2 Juno 7038481
RDi 9.5 September 2015 7.2 4.4 Luna 7038481
RDi 9.6 November 2017 7.2 4.6 Neon 7038481

For version history see Product life cycle dates

IBM Product IDs

Since at least V7.5 IBM used the following product IDs

Passport

Advantage

AAS
5724-Y99 5733-RDW

References

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