RE: QSYS38 vs. 3rd-party vendors

[qsrvbas@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Tom Liotta)]

Debbie:

Unless you have to have this vendor's product, you should strenuously resist.

The first indication to me is that they have not qualified necessary references 
to QSYS and are finding conflicts in command definitions. And now they're 
unwilling or unable to correct these flaws in their software.

I ran across this myself a couple years back with a simple change to a piece of 
install code that included an unqualified SNDMSG command. For some odd reason 
the customer had created a new version of SNDMSG and placed it in a library 
above QSYS. While that by itself was no big deal, the kicker was that the 
replacement SNDMSG had no TOMSGQ() parameter. My simple code change caused a 
nasty blowup in the install. (Who would've foreseen no TOMSGQ() on SNDMSG???)

An oversight on my part to miss the qualification in my code, but a lesson that 
will stick.

The responsibility is on the vendor.

Tom Liotta

p.s. I've always been irritated that SNDDTAARA and RCVDTAARA were never 
implemented in OS/400.


midrange-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

>   9.  (Debbie Panco)
>
>  We converted from a S38 to an AS400 quite a while back.  However,
>we do still have some physical and logical files that have never been
>recreated so they are sitting out there with a 38 attribute.  Most of our
>programs have been recompiled already as AS400 objects with a few
>still lingering around as 38.  (Note that we do still have QSYS38 in our
>library list.)
>  We are having an issue with a 3rd party software vendor who wants
>us to get rid of the QSYS38 library as their position is that it's existence
>is causing problems within their software.  So here is my question.....
>We want to recompile all of our physical and logical files as AS400.
>Do we then need to recompile all of the programs that sit over those
>files?  What would be the ramifications (if any) of not recompiling the
>AS400 programs or (if we missed some) in not recompiling the 38
>programs that would then sit over the AS400 files?

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Tom Liotta
The PowerTech Group, Inc.
19426 68th Avenue South
Kent, WA 98032
Phone  253-872-7788 x313
Fax    253-872-7904
http://www.powertechgroup.com


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