Re: CLASSPATH longer than 1024 characters causes ADDENVVAR to fail

IBM i is not Unix. It's not supposed to be Unix. It's not supposed to work like Unix.

IBM provides QShell for that. And PASE. QShell would expand the variables, as would any of the shells in PASE. They also support both AIX and Linux running on the same hardware, both of which support many shells, all of which would expand these variables?

Can't IBM give us a modern shell? They did. Many. Probably hundreds.

I sure don't expect IBM i's command-line environment (which is actually *newer* than Unix) to act like Unix. It's not Unix, so why would it? It supports great things, like the ability to prompt commands, the ability to embed help inside commands, and make all command interfaces consistent and easy to write. Easy to use and efficient work-with panels, etc. It's a great system.

Please don't blame IBM i for being itself.



Terrence Enger wrote:

Right you are. I just tried it at V4R3, and ${varname} does not expand
the variabble. Just another case of me getting use to a beyond-POSIX
extension without realizing it, I guess. Sigh. Can IBM not give us a
modern shell?

Cheers,
Terry.