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  • Subject: Addition of feature code as Data area or System Value
  • From: "Steve Glanstein" <mic@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 2 Jan 1998 13:10:50 -1000
  • Cc: "Al Barsa, Jr." <barsa@xxxxxxx>

Al, Neil and Others:

Remember, V3R1 when they added the new system calues QQRYDEGREE and
QQRYTIMLMT?  This was done by PTF.  The system value space can easily
support a couple of additional values!

The problem with a data area is that it is not sacred.  Adding this as a
system value for both CISC and 
CISC boxes should have been done when the advanced series first came out.
(IMHO)



> ------------------------------
> 
> Date: Fri, 02 Jan 1998 13:20:31 -0500
> From: "Al Barsa, Jr." <barsa2@ibm.net>
> Subject: Re: Data Area for Processor Model and Feature #
> 
> At 06:11 AM 1/2/98 -0700, you wrote:
> 
> I will proudly stand up and take credit for this.  I have been screaming
> since V3R1 that we needed a system value for the feature number.  IBM's
> response has consistently been 'no business requirement'.  In a recent
trip
> to Rochester, I sat an IBM exec down at a workstation, with normal
> authority (e.g.: not *ALLOBJ or *SERVICE), and showed how to get the
feature.
> 
> What I asked for was either a system value QFEATURE, or to allow you to
> retrieve the feature by making the retrievable length of QMODEL either 4
> digits or optionally 8 digits (thus providing the feature).
> 
> They indicated that you can't make a system value retrievable in
different
> lengths, so I pointed out QTIME and QIGCCDEFNT.  Ah well, they settled on
a
> new system value in the release after next.  (At that time, it was deemed
> to be too late for the next release.)
> 
> The data area is an interim solution, although I thought it was going
into
> QSYS or QUSRSYS.  The name QPRCFEAT is as meaningful as #$%@, but this is
> the way that the developer who responded with 'no business requirement'
got
> back at me.
> 
> This is not a good solution to enforce software tiering, but there's an
API
> to do that.  It is a good solution for when you (as a vendor) has to call
> the system operator and say what software tier are you at?
> 
> Does anyone know what V4R1M4 is about?
> 
> Al
> 
> 
> >There have been postings to the list in the past asking is there is a
> >way to find the processor feature number.  Well, until now there wasn't
> >an easy way to find the processor feature.
> >Now, with the required PTF's, you will find the information in a data
> >area in QGPL.. Hopefully they will make this a read only system value in
> >the future.
> >
> >Of course, if your plan was to use it in some way related to enforcing
> >tiered pricing in your software, it's too easily changed for that !
> >Especially as it gets created with *PUBLIC *CHANGE authority.  Shame,
> >Shame IBM - should have been *PUBLIC *USE.   Still, thanks anyway !  :-)
> >
> >PTF List:
> >  Release 320   : SF43978 available 97/10/22 (1000 )
> >  Release 370   : SF44314 available 97/10/30 (1000 )
> >  Release 410   : SF43981 available 97/10/21 (7308 )
> >  Release 414   : SF45311 available 97/12/04 (1000 )
> >  Release 420   : PTF not available yet
> >
> >========================================================================
> >=
> >  APAR Identifier ...... SA68233       Last Changed..97/12/04  
> >  OSP-UNPRED DATA AREA FOR SYSTEM PROCESSOR FEATURE CODE
> > 
> >  Symptom ...... DD DOC               Status ........... CLOSED  PER
> >  Severity ................... 2      Date Closed ......... 97/10/08
> >  Component .......... 5769SS100      Duplicate of ........
> >  Reported Release ......... 410      Fixed Release ............ 999
> >  Component Name 5769 BASE V4         Special Notice
> >  Current Target Date ..              Flags
> >  SCP ................... OS/400
> >  Platform ............ OS/400
> > 
> >  Status Detail: SHIPMENT - Packaged solution is available for
> >                            shipment.
> >  PTF List:
> >  Release 410   : SF43981 available 97/10/21 (7308 )
> >  Release 414   : SF45311 available 97/12/04 (1000 )
> >  Release 420   : PTF not available yet
> >  
> >  Parent APAR:    SA68229
> >  Child APAR list:
> > 
> >  ERROR DESCRIPTION:
> >  THIS APAR WAS SYSROUTED FROM R370 SA68229.
> >  THIS APAR WAS SYSROUTED FROM R320 SA68226.
> >  Today, there is not an easy way for the customer to determine
> >  the system processor feature.  They can go thru SST, but these
> >  are not easy steps.  There needs to be a data area created in
> >  QGPL called QPRCFEAT that will contain the Model and processor
> >  feature.
> > 
> >  PROBLEM CONCLUSION:
> >  The data area QGPL/QPRCFEAT containing the Model and processor
> >  feature will be created.
> >
> >... Neil Palmer                                     AS/400~~~~~      
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