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  • Subject: Re: Command defaults changed after upgrade --> V4R4
  • From: email@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (James W Kilgore)
  • Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2000 01:33:13 -0800
  • Organization: Progressive Data Systems, Inc.

John,

AFAIK, any upgrade resets the commands back to the factory default.

What we did was crt a command (SETCMDDFT) which we run after an upgrade
to reapply any command default changes we desire.

It's also a nice way to document why the commands don't behave the way
the book says.

J. Kilgore

JFinney@omnia.co.za wrote:
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> Just something I found particularly interesting.
> 
>  We upgraded our systems (2 AS/400's) from V4R3 to V4R4 over the weekend. I
> was surprised to find out this morning that the command defaults that had
> been changed using the CHGCMDDFT CL command had been reverted back to their
> "former glorious defaults".
> 
> We never copied these commands, (which perhaps we should have), prior to
> changing them as it was only a few (eg. the parm UPDPROD on the STRDBG cmd
> was changed from *NO to *YES).
> 
> Just out of curiosity, is this a default action of the upgrade process and,
> if so, can it be changed to allow for those cmds which have had changed
> defaults ?
> 
> Regards
> John.
> 
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