Re: qgpl

[CRPence <CRPbottle@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 20 Feb 2013 16:23, A Paul wrote:
> Just looking for some opinion here whether QGPL should be part of
> the user library list (for test environment), I believe it can
> invalidate tests and can have other impacts. I know IBM created QGPL
> to contain some objects that are necessary for the system to perform
> effectively.

  I am not sure what about QGPL, with regard to it being in a library 
list anyway, is "necessary for the system to perform effectively" 
[except some oddity\defect with the printer file QPRINT].

  I do not have a good understanding of its origins on the S/38, beyond 
being a location to store some customizable [mostly system Work 
Management] objects and a desire to satisfy the name resolution for the 
special value *CRTDFT [the "Create Default library" or "default current 
library", for when a current library has not been established for a user 
profile and\or its job, but for which resolution from *CURLIB to a 
specific name is required].  To me, everything about the library seems 
mostly about convenience for having customized WM objects that will not 
be replaced by an install of the OS; as if somehow, proper system change 
management as the onus of the admin is really all that complicated... 
but admittedly, a design intent of the system was to be simple enough 
for a "mom and pop" operation to run one :-)

  But I do recall well, the library having been not so fondly nicknamed 
[within the IBM lab as] the Garbage Pile Library.  That is in sharp 
contrast to its official moniker as the General Purpose Library.  A 
separate library for the "create default" library should have been 
chosen, one which was not a quasi-system library; i.e. any library 
against which a CLRLIB would be of little concern... as many feel is the 
case for QRPLOBJ.

  My rule is to never have the library QGPL in my library list.  I do 
this because I do not want other people's /garbage/ being found by my 
unqualified requests.  Having QGPL lower in my library list than those 
libraries where I want to find my stuff, is not relevant.  If I issue 
WRKOBJ *USRLIBL/B* I do not want to see any objects created by others, 
and if I issue DLTF *USRLIBL/BOGUS when I do not happen to have a *FILE 
BOGUS in one of my user libraries, then I want neither to give the 
appearance that I tried to effect, nor actually though accidentally to 
effect, the deletion of the file QGPL/BOGUS.