Re: Checking the level of interest

rob@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

V5 allows you to remove observability, yet still have enough in there to move to V6. Read the redpiece.

Hmm. Read the redpiece. Also read the CHGPGM RMVOBS help on our V5 test box:

Some programs retain unobservable creation data
even when observable creation data is removed. OPM programs created for release V5R1M0 or later
(TGTRLS parameter when the program was created) will always contain creation data even when *ALL
observability is removed. ILE programs created only from modules created for release V5R1M0 or later will always contain creation data even when *ALL observability or *CRTDTA observability
is removed.

I'm fascinated. (I'm fascinated, too. Right here on the arm.)

Of course, even with all the security holes IBM is plugging, they probably haven't expended much effort to make sure that malicious hackers can't get into this "unobservable" creation data and use it against developers.

Fortunately, nothing we sell still involves unsupported hacks (the closest we get to that is displaying datalink fields in QuestView, and allowing QV to open files with LOB fields without crashing) or anything patched to system state.

I'm still in shock from learning that the maximum length of zoned and packed fields has been expanded (and not quite sure how much of a pain in the fundament it will be to deal with that in QV)