Re: Data Area for Processor Model and Feature #

At 06:11 AM 1/2/98 -0700, you wrote:

I will proudly stand up and take credit for this.  I have been screaming
since V3R1 that we needed a system value for the feature number.  IBM's
response has consistently been 'no business requirement'.  In a recent trip
to Rochester, I sat an IBM exec down at a workstation, with normal
authority (e.g.: not *ALLOBJ or *SERVICE), and showed how to get the feature.

What I asked for was either a system value QFEATURE, or to allow you to
retrieve the feature by making the retrievable length of QMODEL either 4
digits or optionally 8 digits (thus providing the feature).

They indicated that you can't make a system value retrievable in different
lengths, so I pointed out QTIME and QIGCCDEFNT.  Ah well, they settled on a
new system value in the release after next.  (At that time, it was deemed
to be too late for the next release.)

The data area is an interim solution, although I thought it was going into
QSYS or QUSRSYS.  The name QPRCFEAT is as meaningful as #$%@, but this is
the way that the developer who responded with 'no business requirement' got
back at me.

This is not a good solution to enforce software tiering, but there's an API
to do that.  It is a good solution for when you (as a vendor) has to call
the system operator and say what software tier are you at?

Does anyone know what V4R1M4 is about?

Al


>There have been postings to the list in the past asking is there is a
>way to find the processor feature number.  Well, until now there wasn't
>an easy way to find the processor feature.
>Now, with the required PTF's, you will find the information in a data
>area in QGPL.. Hopefully they will make this a read only system value in
>the future.
>
>Of course, if your plan was to use it in some way related to enforcing
>tiered pricing in your software, it's too easily changed for that !
>Especially as it gets created with *PUBLIC *CHANGE authority.  Shame,
>Shame IBM - should have been *PUBLIC *USE.   Still, thanks anyway !  :-)
>
>PTF List:
>  Release 320   : SF43978 available 97/10/22 (1000 )
>  Release 370   : SF44314 available 97/10/30 (1000 )
>  Release 410   : SF43981 available 97/10/21 (7308 )
>  Release 414   : SF45311 available 97/12/04 (1000 )
>  Release 420   : PTF not available yet
>
>========================================================================
>=
>  APAR Identifier ...... SA68233       Last Changed..97/12/04  
>  OSP-UNPRED DATA AREA FOR SYSTEM PROCESSOR FEATURE CODE
> 
>  Symptom ...... DD DOC               Status ........... CLOSED  PER
>  Severity ................... 2      Date Closed ......... 97/10/08
>  Component .......... 5769SS100      Duplicate of ........
>  Reported Release ......... 410      Fixed Release ............ 999
>  Component Name 5769 BASE V4         Special Notice
>  Current Target Date ..              Flags
>  SCP ................... OS/400
>  Platform ............ OS/400
> 
>  Status Detail: SHIPMENT - Packaged solution is available for
>                            shipment.
>  PTF List:
>  Release 410   : SF43981 available 97/10/21 (7308 )
>  Release 414   : SF45311 available 97/12/04 (1000 )
>  Release 420   : PTF not available yet
>  
>  Parent APAR:    SA68229
>  Child APAR list:
> 
>  ERROR DESCRIPTION:
>  THIS APAR WAS SYSROUTED FROM R370 SA68229.
>  THIS APAR WAS SYSROUTED FROM R320 SA68226.
>  Today, there is not an easy way for the customer to determine
>  the system processor feature.  They can go thru SST, but these
>  are not easy steps.  There needs to be a data area created in
>  QGPL called QPRCFEAT that will contain the Model and processor
>  feature.
> 
>  PROBLEM CONCLUSION:
>  The data area QGPL/QPRCFEAT containing the Model and processor
>  feature will be created.
>
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