RE: RE: 5.1.2.5 vs 6.0 co-existence and 5.2.1.5 removal

The CPYTOIMPF/CPYFRMIMPF problems were icky...and it took IBM a while to
fix them IMO. Of course, they had that dtaara kludge to make it work
like it should (V5R2). I also encountered a backwards incompatibility
with QNTC from V5R3 to an NT PDC. These were a couple of big ones...I
don't remember others of substance. That being said, the double edged
sword of the iSeries is it's backwards compatibility. I can take the
lousy, inefficient code that I wrote in a S/3 Model 8 a long, long time
ago and run it on the latest 570. And the problem is...people do that.

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: RE: [WDSCI-L] RE: 5.1.2.5 vs 6.0 co-existence and 5.2.1.5
> removal
> From: "Joe Pluta" <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Thu, August 25, 2005 1:16 pm
> To: "'Websphere Development Studio Client for iSeries'"
> <wdsci-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Ugh.  I hate hearing this.  While I agree that the CPYTOIMPF problem was
> particularly painful, how many other cases can you point to where IBM
> has broken backwards compatibility?  Other than the oft-lamented library
> list issue, I can't think of one (okay, WebSphere 4.0 - but we should
> have seen that coming a mile away).
> 
> Yes, the CPYTOIMPF was a fiasco.  But to be "gun-shy" because of it
> seems a little bit of an over-reaction.  However, I could be way off
> base here: I haven't had to deal with the problem, so maybe it's worse
> than I thought.  But isn't there a PTF and/or a workaround for the
> issue?
> 
> At the same time, are you still running Windows 95?  Because if you
> aren't, then you've gone through a whole slew of backwards
> incompatibilities, one after the other, year after year, just keeping
> your PCs up to date.  I'm, not saying that's a good thing; it's not.
> But I'm trying to keep a sense of perspective here.
> 
> Joe
> 
> 
> > From: GKern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > 
> > (After dealing with V5R3 cpytoimpf issues recently, I'm getting
> gun-shy
> > about upgrading things I've become dependent on.)
> 
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