Re: QRPLOBJ Authority

["Al Barsa, Jr." <barsa2@xxxxxxx>]

At 12:15 PM 7/16/97, you wrote:
>Al,
>
>>The reason to use a persistent library (as opposed to QTEMP) is that a real
>>library lasts from job to job.  QTEMP is unique to any job, but insures
>>that you control your own QTEMP.
>>
>>My suggestion would be to create a persistent library (e.g.:$$TEMP), and
>>then have the start-up program clear it on each IPL.  
>>
>>The one difference between my solution, and the use of QRPLOBJ (which I
>>also object to) is that my solution is not persistent across achieving a
>>restricted state of OS/400 (without some relatively complex coding), but I
>>suspect for most purposes, this is persistent enough.
>
> Besides authority considerations, what objections do you have to using
>QRPLOBJ?
>
In general, it's not nice to fool with mother nature.  I think that if your
application got messed up because of QRPLOBJ, IBM would say that you should
not have been there.

Al



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