Re: Al Barsa on OV/400 and ptf's

And we had an application that used a link to OV/400 for a wordy text 
field.  After the demise of OV/400 we added another field to the database 
that was variable length to process it.  5250 sucks for processing a 
32,000 byte variable length field, but we got it done.

Rob Berendt
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-Ming the Merciless (Flash Gordon)




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This is a relatively old story, and at some point or other, IBM slipped us
V5R2 PTFs that would allow OV to run.  Previously, RSTLICPGM would not
restore it.  This allowed a lot of customers to go to V5R2 and use newer
hardware.

You know, IBM went to a lot of pain in the late eighties to push OV/400,
and when they were moderately successful.  I had one customers with 600
pages of help text in OV.  We moved them from OV to TextManagement/38!
Some of the software vendors that were tied to OV, developed proprietary
packages to move them to M$Word.  I know that HTE has one.

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Could you expand on that a little bit about PTF's and
allowing OV/400 to go to V5R2 ????

Is this an old story ???

I belive this is the first I have seen this mentioned...



Al Barsa wrote:


> Hi,
>
> First of all, PTFs were issued to allow you to load the last release of
OV
> onto V5R2.  You need to change some system values to accomplish this, 
and
> it will get deleted for every new release hereafter, and it's not
> supported, but it is what it is.


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