Re: Woes on ANZOBJCVN...

Steve.Hinrichs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

Joe and Rob,

I respect both of your input on this group very much. You are missing one
point. It may not be just a 'recompile' to make it work on V6. IBM has
made many changes and enhancements to the i5/OS, API's, JAVA, and many
other areas that can cause things to not work. I would recommend checking
out i5/OS Memo to Users for V6R1, and the redpaper on converting to V6R1.

No question, Steve. That's actually my point: the encapsulation issue is really only a small part of the V6R1 release and something of a red herring. V6R1 is a substantial release, and like any release, it requires vendors to test their code. If IBM only made V6R1 available in the summer, that's sort of a tight squeeze, but then again I seem to remember that we only had about a year to migrate to Silverlake (the first AS/400), and that was a MUCH bigger issue than moving to a new release of i5/OS.

If you're a software vendor it's your responsibility to handle version changes. That's what you're selling, after all - the security that the people using your software can continue to use your software (well technically I guess that's what you're charging maintenance for).

Joe