Re: WHAT was IBM THINKING?!?!?, Re: QSYGETPH API

[Wayne McAlpine <wayne.mcalpine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Don't hold back.  Tell us what you really feel.

James H H Lampert wrote:
> What in the <censored> was IBM thinking when they broke the <blasphemy> 
> <obscenity> <vulgarity> QSYGETPH API in V5R3, such that it now requires 
> <censored> parameters that didn't even <censored> exist when the API was 
> first defined?
>
> Have they somehow forgotten the basic <censored> concept of an API? Have 
> they somehow forgotten that an API, by definition, is a fixed, 
> documented system call that can be trusted not to change in any way that 
> would break existing code? Or have they suddenly decided to act like 
> <blasphemy> Microschlong, and tell all outside commercial product 
> developers to <obscenity> <anatomically improbable bodily function>?
>
> --
> JHHL