RE: V5R3 Performance Issue

Agreed on the "Who would know".  Point being, it would not effect the system
on which the file currently resides, NOT that it would not effect your
employment and I do not recommend doing so without your boss knowing.

V5R3 can save back to V5R1 which does support the new access path size.  FTP
the actual file will cause lots of issues trying to go back further.  How
else would you ship an AS400 DBF to another AS400 on an older release?  I
can think of lots of ways to move the data, not the object.

Chris Bipes
Information Services Director
CrossCheck, Inc.


-----Original Message-----
From: rob@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:rob@xxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2005 8:05 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: RE: V5R3 Performance Issue


"Who would know" might be a hard thing to explain to the wife in a few 
weeks as your idea of dining out, while unemployed, means looking through 
the dumpster of your favorite Italian restaurant.

There might be a business reason for this.  Perhaps they support some 
moron running some old version of OS/400 that would not let a file with 
that attribute restore.  Tough to do from a V5R3 machine but not 
impossible.  I suppose you could restore it to an intermediate machine, 
resave it...