RE: Domino Server release and domino command best practices

[rob@xxxxxxxxx]

I just ran 
WRKOBJ *ALL/SBMDOMCMD
Look at my results:
Object      Type      Library     Attribute
SBMDOMCMD   *CMD      QDOMINO702 
SBMDOMCMD   *CMD      QNOTES 
SBMDOMCMD   *CMD      QSYS        PRX 

Do you know what the PRX means?  That means it is a Proxy Command. 
Something new in V5R4.  Basically it is a lot like a symbolic link in the 
IFS.  If you do a
DSPCMD QSYS/SBMDOMCMD
you will see that it executes the command QDOMINO702/SBMDOMCMD.
With a proxy command if you do a CHGCMDDFT on QSYS/SBMDOMCMD you will also 
change the defaults on the command in QDOMINO702.  IBM goes to great 
length's to explain this in the V5R4 MTU.

Don't know if this has any relavance to your situation at hand, but it 
might be a handy piece of information.

We've actually created a few of our own proxy commands.  Let's say there 
was a vendor supplied command that was not duped into QGPL or some system 
library list portion.  We would create a proxy command to their command. 
Thus, when we upgraded their software we would not have to worry about 
upgrading a copy of their command in the system portion of the library 
list because a proxy command would point to the updated command 
automatically.  A proxy command is like a LF built over a PF.  Much 
different than a CRTDUPOBJ of that PF.  The LF has up to the second 
updates, while the CRTDUPOBJ has no updates.

Rob Berendt