RE: When did CFINT begin

[Jim Damato <jdamato@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It was never done with hardware.  The original server models were
counterparts to traditional AS/400's.  For example the 530 and 53S were
essentially the same machine.  As a server model interactive was suppressed
somehow through governors in OS/400.  I can't say whether they had formally
implemented CFINT at that time or whether the OS just sensed hardware or
model information (or panel color) and interactive jobs were suppressed
through hard code.  Interactive feature came about as folks bought the
original server models and demanded some degree of interactive processing
without buying a traditional model.

The first server models were offered as an alternative to traditional
models.  Later traditional models were eliminated and every model was a
server model with options for interactive feature cards.  I suspect, like
Stefan Tageson, that CFINT was implemented with the interactive feature
cards and V4R1.

-Jim

James Damato
Manager - Technical Administration
Dollar General Corporation
<mailto:jdamato@dollargeneral.com>


-----Original Message-----
From: Pat Barber [mailto:mboceanside@worldnet.att.net]
Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2001 12:52 PM
To: midrange-l@midrange.com
Subject: Re: When did CFINT begin


It came about slowly actually... When the first "server" boxes came 
out back in the dark days.... It didn't really hit home until the
7XX boxes came out and IBM decided that interactive was a "bad" 
thing that required more money to make it a "good" thing.... I
suspect as others do, that CFINT has been around in other forms for
a very long time...... The 9402-20S is the first "server" model that
I recall seeing and I suspect, it had CFINT somewhere in there. This
"might" have been done with hardware rather than software at that
point.(1994-1995)...


Ray wrote:
> 
> I suspect it arrived in V3R6 since that was the first release supporting
the
> 5xx models which included the 50S and 53S models.  They're each "server"
> models which favor batch processing.  I can't say for sure cfint was there
> in V3R6, but it sure exits on those boxes today.
>
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