RE: webfacing and competing products

["Joe Pluta" <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> From: Don McIntyre
>
> Why couldn't I just use take the IBM  replacement api's and execute them
> from the same command name in a different
> library(i.e.qwebsys/wrksplf..etc).
> When accessed from the web, the web users would have the command library
> added to the top of their library list at start up.

That's an excellent suggestion, Don.  That would work for pretty much all
cases, except where either the vendor or IBM hardcoded the library.  IBM has
been doing this more in recent releases, qualifying the command like so:
QSYS/WRKSPLF.  However, most people don't do that, and so the library list
scheme should work fine.

You have to use the CHGSYSLIBL command to do this, however, so it would have
to be a startup step not just a job description, but it could be done.  With
PSC/400, you could add it in as part of the runtime startup exit program (a
unique feature of PSC/400 is its exit programs which allow you to tailor
security and environmental parameters dynamically).

Joe