Re: V5R2: Source now allowed in the IFS

[qsrvbas@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Tom Liotta)]

Mark:

Hmmm... kinda makes you wonder how they manage to store essentially exactly the 
same info in only 16 bytes of an audit journal entry then, eh?

Tom Liotta

midrange-l-request@midrange.com wrote:

>  10. Re: V5R2:  Source now allowed in the IFS (Mark Waterbury)

>Even so, how can you possibly store a (potentially very long) fully
>qualified IFS path name in the space (only 30 bytes for file, library,
>and member) reserved in the OIR (Object Information Repository)
>of either a *PGM or a *MODULE object?
>
>The OIR was architected way back when in CPF on the S/38, and
>its basic format and layout has not been updated much since then.
>
>The real problem with all these IFS path names is that the path can
>contain an arbitrary number of "levels" of subdirectory, before you
>even get to the actual file name, which in and of itself can be very
>long... the architected "limit", by the way, if you can call it that, for
>IFS path names in OS/400 is 16 Megabytes! (16 million+ characters)

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