Re: 7.2 vs CRTLINTRN

On 06-Jan-2016 14:37 -0700, rob wrote:

Recently we had a token ring thread on this list.

Token ring is not supported on IBM i 7.2 for the sole reason that
there are no token ring cards which are supported on any hardware
platform which can run IBM i 7.2.
None of the 7.2 documentation has been updated to this fact. I've
been hammering IBM hard on this.
Commands like CRTLINTRN are still there and apparently still run
CRTLINTRN LIND(X) RSRCNAME(CMN01) LINESPEED(*N) MAXFRAME(4105)
Line description X created.

This stuff needs to be removed.

Why /needs to be/? More accurately IMO, /seemingly could be/ given the claim about hardware\software combinations; though possibly only from a perspective of "I infer that …".

FWiW the general rule is, that for anything being completely removed, there would need to be one N-1 release [¿or was that N-2 release or a V-1 version?] on which the CL commands for a feature will remain despite obsolescence; the output from the feature would be changed to include issue of a message about the pending\upcoming removal. That gives a chance to warn of the demise, and for any source code changes to be made along with replacement of binaries in which the obsolesced command(s) remain.

I've submitted a DCR.

Probably a speedier and simpler avenue would have been to ask on the KnowledgeCenter, why the command is not documented as non-functional except for compatibility, or if indeed that is the effect, given there are [apparently] no physical cards that support TR.

Yet, while there may be no support currently for any physical TR card, that may not be, necessarily, the long-term intention. Additionally, while logically the specified Resource Name (RSRCNAME) may seem to require a "Token Ring Card", that may not actually be the reality; i.e. virtual connections may be applicable, such that perhaps another physical comm card [e.g. an Ethernet or ??? card] provides a compatible resource possibly with vitualization of the TR comm -- and if not presently, again, perhaps in the future.

p.s. all that said... I am primarily replying, to see if I can post via NNTP [using an on-topic reply vs a /test/ message]; gmane seems possibly to have nixed my ability to post here, since just about four hours ago.