Re: [MI400] Analyzing SAV save files from a PC

["Mark S. Waterbury" <mark.s.waterbury@xxxxxxx>]

Cool!  IFS was not introduced until V3R1, so you are okay with regard to
V2R3 and V3R0M5. (V3R0M5 was essentially just V2R3 "patched" to run on the
then-new black box models. Why didn't they just call it V2R3M1? Because, if
you recall, IBM charged a significant fee to upgrade from V2 to V3.) If
anyone is really interested, I have an old machine running V2R1M0, I could
"fire it up" and create a save file and see what it has for codes for V2R1,
and I could probably TGTRLS(*PRV) back at least as far as V1R3, perhaps even
V1R2... ;-)

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dave McKenzie" <davemck@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "MI Programming on the AS400 / iSeries" <mi400@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2004 5:13 PM
> Subject: Re: [MI400] Analyzing SAV save files from a PC
>

> Here's what I know about the release level codes:
>
>          SAVOBJ/
>          SAVLIB   SAV
> ---------------------
> V5R3M0    x43     xAF
> V5R2M0     42      AE
> V5R1M0     41      AD
> V4R5M0     40      AC
> V4R4M0     3F      AB
> V4R3M0     3E      AA *
> V4R1M4     3D      A9 *
> V4R2M0     3C      A8 *
> V4R1M0     3B      A7 *
> V3R7M0     3A      A6 *
> V3R2M0     36      A2
> V3R6M0     35      A1 *
> V3R1M0     34      A0
> V3R0M5     31
> V2R3M0     30
>
> Notice the gaps and codes out of order.  They may give a glimpse into
> the order that Rochester worked on the releases.
>
> The SAV codes marked with * are guesses, based on the sequence of the
> SAVOBJ/SAVLIB codes, which I'm sure of.
>
> I don't recall when the IFS was introduced, so I didn't try to guess
> V3R0M5 and V2R3.
>
> Don't ask me what V4R1M4 was :-)  I found it by manually changing the
> byte in the save file with SST, then looking at what DSPSAVF showed.
>
> --Dave
>
> On Wed, 2004-08-25 at 13:46, James H H Lampert wrote:
> > As of now, I'm able to generate a list of complete pathnames of
everything
> > in the save file. Thanks, Dave.
> >
> > Would anybody happen to know what the SAV release level codes are for
V4R3
> > and prior? And what about the SAVOBJ/SAVLIB release level codes for
V5Rx?
> >
> > --
> > JHHL
>
>
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