Re: RSTOBJ clarification, was a restriction in force years ago that went away

That is all true. I just wondered if some parts of the OS were required to
be in specific places. Like ancient DOS where IO.SYS and CONFIG.SYS
couldn't seemingly just be copied to a floppy and then be able to boot from
that floppy. I don't know if >that< was true, and did not have the
misfortune to have to find out at an "inoptune time" whether it was or
wasn't true.

John McKee

On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 3:08 PM, Bryan Dietz <bdietz400@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

well i suppose if you deleted all the commands, you could not prompt
RSTOBJ to restore it back from tape. (chicken/egg)

you can restore from a savsys though, its not difficult but you have to
use some parms you might not normally use.


similar thing would happen if you deleted QCPFMSG *msgf

no way to use menus or get messages since they all exist in there.
(actually the best way to lobotomize an IBM i. *do not do it!)

Bryan



John McKee wrote on 2/22/2017 9:15 PM:

An earlier topic about changing command defaults and the unfortunate
consequence bewteen SELCMD and DLTCMD brought this question to mind.

I was told, by an IBM person in 1990, that on v1r2m0, a person with
QSECOFR
could delete commands from QSYS, but they could NOT be restored. I had no
desire to test that.

Does anybody know if that was true? What I dimly recall was object
ownership was supposedly an issue. It doesn't make a lot of sense.

If this >was< true, any idea when it changed?

This is a somewhat useless question, and I apologize. But, it is like
trying to get a song out of your mind (I won't suggest any songs here).

John McKee

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