Re: 7Zip Problem (from rpg400 list)

What you really want is /QOpenSys/usr/local pointing to /usr/local, or
vice versa. It really doesn't matter which way the link exists as long
as one points to the other. This allows PASE utilities to be used from
qshell and vice versa. PASE utilities are looking for something in
/QOpenSys/usr/local, and qshell utilities are typically looking for
something in /usr/local.

No, that is apparently what you want and maybe what Scott wants. It's not
what I want and I'll argue that it's not what's best. The reason it's not
what I want is that I don't want things in either environment that are not
valid. For example, the zip (not 7-Zip) utility intended for AIX can be
installed in PASE but will not execute (last I tried) in QSH environment.
If I tie /usr/local together for the two environments, then in effect I have
a zip program in /usr/local/bin that won't run in my QSH environment. If
later I decide to put in another ZIP executable just for QSH, then I don't
have a way to do it without messing up the PASE environment's zip.

In my PASE my PATH does not include /usr/local/bin; it includes
/QOpenSys/usr/local/bin instead, and the two are not linked. I don't
install PASE stuff into /usr/local/anything; that stuff goes under the
/QOpenSys filesystem as IBM intended. If there are scripts and so on that I
need to share between the environments, then I link at the file level, like
this:

ln -fs /usr/local/bin/my-cool-script /QOpenSys/usr/local/bin

It just isn't that hard to do it right.

Dennis Lovelady
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