Hello Kevin.
Thanks for your post and the interest in our VS Code Extension. As I mentioned in my previous posts, we're very excited about about our plans to extend the integration possibilities for customers (like you!) wishing to adopt modern IBM i development tools.
in 2022, we renamed and renumbered Aldon LMi to Rocket DevOps core for IBM i 10.2 (RDOi). The upgrade from LMi 8.5A is straight forward and provided at no charge if you're current on maintenance. Version 10.2 contains many new features, including the support for VS Code, and will be required for the new tool integrations we're adding in 2023. I encourage you to consider upgrading from 8.5A to 10.2 if that's possible.
I'll contact you by email to provide more details of our VS Code integration.
Regards,
Chris
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Chris White
Principal Product Manager
Rocket Software
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Original Message:
Sent: 02-21-2023 07:02
From: kevin monahan
Subject: Rocket DevOps Git Support
Hi Chris, I am a long-time programmer on the IBMi, and have just started looking at the Visual Studio Code for IBMi IDE. We currently have Aldon LMi v8.5A installed and want to evaluate its features with VS. I am crawling through the Eclipse Plug-in User guide to try to figure out the most secure and proper use of this so that we can get off SEU and be prepared for future projects. Our IBMi knowledge of all these tools (GIT, etc) are limited. We would like to join the 21st century over the next couple of years.
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kevin monahan
Senior Solutions Developer
Destination Xl Group, Inc
Canton MA US
Original Message:
Sent: 01-23-2023 04:30
From: Chris White
Subject: Rocket DevOps Git Support
As you may have read in my previous post, this year our focus is enabling Rocket DevOps customers to embrace a new set of modern development tools in their IBM i environments.
Tools such as Visual Studio Code, Git, Jenkins, and Jira are growing in popularity amongst IBM i developers, and we will continue to build on our current support in a way that makes sense to IBM i developers.
Are you implementing, or planning to implement, tools like these? If you are, I would love to learn more about your plans & objectives for IBM i development in 2023.
Your feedback on our products and solutions is vital so please let me know if you'd be willing to share your thoughts and would like to learn more about future releases of Rocket DevOps.
Kind regards,
Chris
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Chris White
Principal Product Manager
Rocket Software
cwhite@rocketsoftware.com
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