Re: AS400 Library list constraint

[Rob Dixon <rob.dixon@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jim

Neil has to be correct - don't buy it.  I cannot imagine how you could need 12
additional libraries.

Why do people make things so unnecessarily complex?

I learnt yesterday that one of the very well known AS/400 major packages, known
to many members of this list, has about 3 billion lines of source.  I believed
the person who told me but it is beyond belief.   Is frailty the square of
complexity?  There must be some "law" like that.

I would be interested to know what e-mail packages there are for the AS/400, and
approximate price ranges. Because of the limitations of PC email packages, I 
have
been thinking about using e-mail on the AS/400 and adding the necessary function
to my Neural Database (which only has 55,000 lines of code).  I suspect that it
would take less time to develop it myself than to get a package up and running,
as I doubt that it would require 12 new objects in total and certainly no new
libraries, never mind 12 new libraries plus their contents.  But I should
consider all possibilities.

Rob Dixon
Erros plc

Jim Knight wrote:

> We are looking at installing a mail order package that requires a minimum of
> 12 libraries in the *LIBL.
> With our normal test environment, that will take us to over 25 libraries.
> Has anyone heard if IBM is doing anything to relieve this requirement?
> Is there a "push/pop" methodology that is better than RTVJOBA of USRLIBL to
> save the library list and using CHGLIBL to restore it?
>
> Jim Knight
> jknight@rei.com
>
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