Re: QSCMATPG and QSCCRTPG -- MI400

good find mark.

I use the MATPG mi instruction to materialize a pgm. I guess that is the
same as QSCMATPG.  The documentation for the materialize template layout
that I have is from the s/38 functional reference manual. ( of course, now I
cant find those pages ).

Now QSccrtpg, do you think you can slip some nmi into the template and get
it to compile??

Steve

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark S. Waterbury <mark_s_waterbury@yahoo.com>
To: MI400@midrange.com <MI400@midrange.com>
Date: Saturday, May 26, 2001 5:26 PM
Subject: 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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