QSCMATPG and QSCCRTPG

Hello:

Does anyone remember these two wonderful little APIs, 
QSCMATPG, and QSCCRTPG?  The first one materializes the 
OPM MI binary template, and returns it as 80-byte card images in a
"flat file". (From the name, it issues the MATPG MI instruction.)

The second one, QSCCRTPG, reads 80-byte card images in a
"flat file", and re-creates the *PGM object. (Again, from the name,
this one issues the CRTPG instruction).

However, they are not documented in the OS/400 Systems Programmers
API Reference Manuals (for any releases that I could find). And yet, these
have been "public" APIs for many years, perhaps all the way back to the
System/38.

Does anyone out there know why they are (still) not documented? Or,
perhaps a better question might be, does anyone know how or where to
obtain documentation of these routines?

Go to http://www-1.ibm.com/support/ on the web, then type in 
either "QSCMATPG" or "QSCCRTPG"  in the "Search" box, and 
click the "Go" button.  You will get an interesting history of the 
"PTF wars" that resulted when IBM decided to remove these APIs
from OS/400 in V2R3, and suddenly, a whole bunch of various vendor
products stopped working, and many customers complained bitterly, etc.

So, since these APIs have been "restored" to shipping with OS/400 in QSYS,
why are they not documented anywhere?

Thanks,

Mark S. Waterbury

 



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