Re: [IBMiOSS] Updates to 5733OPS -- OPENSOURCE

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On 30 July 2016 at 23:41, Pete Helgren <pete@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I know I have seen it posted somewhere but for the life of me I cannot find
it: Where are the instructions for adding new options to 5733OPS? Based on
the Developerworks wiki, it looks like all I need is to install Group PTF
SF99223. Done! But all I still have is just options 1 and 2. I thought
I'd at least pick up option 4 but no joy......

Yes, this is an atrocious abuse of IBM i's PTF process. When IBM
decided to deliver full free RPG, they didn't insist 5770-WDS option
eleventy-nine be installed first, and then install PTF SI55442 . It
was SNDPTFORD, LODPTF, APYPTF, done.

What we have with 5733-OPS is an undocumented pre-req: that the
individual option for the various open source 'thing' be installed
prior to installing group SF99223. It's not documented at
Developerworks, in group SF99223, nor in any individual PTF within the
group.

Saps like me who downloaded 7.2 on the day it was announced haven't
got media with 15 generic options. I downloaded 5733-OPS from ESS
when /that/ was announced, and it simply didn't occur to me to GO
LICPGM, 11, 1=Add any more than the 3 options IBM had announced back
then.

Lesson learnt. I'll re-download OPS from ESS, install every option in
the known galaxy and then re-install group SF99223. It sure would
have been nice that this were documented somewhere, but I guess
documentation is passé.

--buck
person of oldness

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