RE: IBM i 7.2 & Power8

This message has nothing to do with V7R2 or Power8. Any chance we could all
stop morphing topic area (I am somewhat guilty too so I intend to stop)?

Since this has happened, how about starting a new thread for P8 and/or V7R2?

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Jim Oberholtzer
Chief Technical Architect
Agile Technology Architects

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On 25-Apr-2014 15:14 -0500, Alan Campin wrote:

<<SNIP>> awful messes because nobody wants to recompile the whole
system so they reuse field, create extensions and then extensions for
extensions. <<SNIP>>

Humorously [to me], less than a day after that comment:

http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l/201404/msg00959.html
"... The programmer ... does not want to increase the field size and
recompile all of the programs.

I am thinking of a scheme ..."

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Regards, Chuck
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