Re: MI program unable to locate job - need assistance

[James Lampert <jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ted Slate wrote:
> Finally this code is dead after V5R4.  You may want to abandon this
> code and use the api as suggested.

Yes. In QuestView, one of the very first things I noticed over a decade 
ago was that the hack-based meta-data retrieval was forcing us to play a 
constant game of catch-up with the operating system, and it wasn't doing 
anything that couldn't be done, from V2R2 on, with API calls. The use of 
hacks, although sometimes faster than APIs, was killing the product 
simply because it was killing Security 40 compatibility, and taking up 
all our time just keeping what we had working. It took several years, 
but I managed to make the product hack-free, and once that was achieved, 
we had a lot more time to devote to new features and other products.

Hack-based code is, at best, a sometimes-necessary evil.