RE: Data Area for Processor Model and Feature #

Thanks for beating on them for a system value Al.
Didn't have enough to speak about already ?   :-)

My guess is V4R1M4 is an internal early driver release for V4R2.

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        -----Original Message-----
        From:   Al Barsa, Jr. [SMTP:barsa2@ibm.net]
        Sent:   Friday, January 02, 1998 1:21 PM
        To:     MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
        Subject:        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
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