RE: Re: Interested in creating a 'Gotcha' list

midrange-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

>   3. Re: Interested in creating a 'Gotcha' list (Don)
>
>some folks create a QSYS1 they put in front of their QSYS in the
>syslibl.  In QSYS1 they put the homebrew commands as
>they prn modify.  And you just hope they are all run by the same command
>handler at release boundry... :)


At a previous site around V4R2, they had a library used by the QA group and 
named something like QAPRODLIB. While reviewing various logs and system info, I 
found that the library hadn't been backed up in a long time.

The name starting with "Q" was causing it to be excluded from the regular save 
of "user" libraries via SAVLIB *ALLUSR.

I never looked to see if that was a PTF problem nor if it was corrected in 
future releases. I simply stopped allowing non-IBM library names to begin with 
"Q". In this case, maybe it shouldn't be saved under *ALLUSR, but it's another 
kind of 'gotcha' to watch.

Tom Liotta