Re: Systems with missing source code

James Lampert wrote:

Keith Carpenter wrote:

Personally, I'm disappointed IBM has not maintained better backward compatibility with V6R1. It's certainly a boon for software providers.

The Hell it is. Speaking as a software provider, it's at least as big of a pain in the butt for us as it is for end-users.

James,

For most software, V6R1 is a matter of re-translating the programs either by recompiling source or conversion of observable programs.

You may be in a unique position supporting a mostly MI written application which may not always use IBM supported APIs. Having worked with MI myself, I don't need to tell you unsupported interfaces makes each new OS release a risk in itself. Even more difficult when you try to support it using only the old hardware you have.

I don't know what V6R1 problems you may be encountering, but your prior posts indicated you were mostly concerned with distributing observable code (a decompilation risk).


Keith