Re: another V5R1 upgrade "problem" related to old taatool dltolds plf

["R. Bruce Hoffman, Jr." <rbruceh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

----- Original Message -----
From: <David.X.Kahn@gsk.com>
To: <midrange-l@midrange.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 4:30 AM
Subject: RE: another V5R1 upgrade "problem" related to old taatool dltolds
plf


> Rod wrote:
>
> > Are you sure this came from TAATOOL? Henrik Krebbs had
> > a command of the same name (library HKTOOL)
>
> Yes, it appears to be a TAATOOL.

fasinating. Yes, it is a very old tool, from the QUSRTOOL libraries, I don't
know if it's still included or offered in the current TAATools. I used it
quite some time ago, but....

I don't recall, but does it use an API or is it spool file output that is
read back in? If (and I think, for some reason, it was) the latter, then you
should have seen it coming, as with almost every release, spooled file
output from commands changes constantly. Outfile support changes
occasionally as well, but API's are not supposed to change in the middle of
the structure, without pointer based and offset references.

If it's an API, and it's not clearly documented in the memo to users as an
API change in the programming section, they you have a legitimate beef with
IBM, regardless of the age of the command. The change should have then been
to add a format or add the field to the end of the output. This is
documented in the API references.

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R. Bruce Hoffman, Jr.
 -- IBM Certified Specialist - iSeries Administrator
 -- IBM Certified Specialist - RPG IV Developer

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