Re: The Day the Music Dies (was: RE: backup spool file) -- MIDRANGE-L

There you go, guess there's more than one way to skin a cat.  The only 
problem with that is if the application developer ignored the alpha.

Rob Berendt
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After V9 could come W1? 



(for Wonderful 1?)



 

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You can always make a command parameter bigger.

 

The problem is what do you do with fields for system output files.  The

output file for DSPOBJD has three fields, ODCPVR, ODCVRM and ODPVRM which

are all six bytes long.  If you change the length of these fields, this

will cause logic in programs to break.

 

Al

 

Al Barsa, Jr.

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"i" comes before "p", "x" and "z"

e gads

 

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The SYSLVL parameter of RTVOBJD takes a 9-character variable. The format 
is

VnnRnnMnn. But, as Al says, there are lots of places that use 6-character

format - not the least being all the TGTRLS parameters, which are now

defined as *CHAR-8.

 

Vern

 

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>

> Rob,

>

> I have seen places where the VRM is in more than six characters, but

mostly

> it is in six characters. Too much stuff will break. The only way that

> were able to slip a V2 to us is that it came after the collating 
sequence

 

> after R03M00.

>

> Al Barsa, Jr.

> Barsa Consulting Group, LLC

>

> 400>390

>

> "i" comes before "p", "x" and "z"

> e gads

>

> Our system's had more names than Elizabeth Taylor!

>

> 914-251-1234

> 914-251-9406 fax

>

> http://www.barsaconsulting.com

> http://www.taatool.com

> http://www.as400connection.com

>

>

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> If they can do your favorite requests like add more libraries to the

> library list and that stuff, surely they can handle a reformatting like

> V10R01M00? Anyway, I don't see that happening for 10 years or so.

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> Rob Berendt

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> In all seriousness, most OS/400 users think that V9 is as Don McClain

once

> said, "the day the music dies". Not true, but that's the perception.

>

> Point 1: i5OS, or OS/400, or whatever the heck you want to call

> it

> is really an extension of CPF.

> Point 2: Many software vendors assume that the "next release" of

> any OS will be higher in the collating sequence than the prior release.

> This means that changing from V9R9M9 to V1R1M0 will not be as simple a

> process as just loading a new release. It will have to coincide with 
some

 

> major system event, such as changing from CPF to OS/400, or CISC to 
RISC.

 

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> I don't see a way around this.

>

> Al

>

> Al Barsa, Jr.

> Barsa Consulting Group, LLC

>

> 400>390

>

> "i" comes before "p", "x" and "z"

> e gads

>

> Our system's had more names than Elizabeth Taylor!

>

> 914-251-1234

> 914-251-9406 fax

>

> http://www.barsaconsulting.com

> http://www.taatool.com

> http://www.as400connection.com

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> What are you talking about Don? I know nothing about the next release of

> OS/400. Will it be V7R4????

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> Al

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