Re: OS/400 V4R5 and OPNQRYF

[Lou Forlini <lforlini@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Al,

At 10:06 AM -0500 3/23/01, barsa@barsaconsulting.com wrote:
>IBM was circulating rumors that it might disable OPNQRYF from working with
>files with new types of fields in future releases (e.g.: after 2001).

    The communication I got from them was more than a rumor, more of a 
statement of direction.

>After circulating these rumors as a trial balloon, they quickly came to
>their senses.

    Do you have any official or semi-official source for this 
statement?  It would be good news, for sure.  I had a short but 
intense e-mail exchange with IBM on this topic. The last thing I 
heard from them was that they were considering disallowing OPNQRYF 
from accessing files where any of the key fields had new features 
(this was a backpedal from their original statement).  As far as I 
was concerned, it was not much of an improvement.

    Regards,

    - Lou Forlini
      Software Engineer
      System Support Products, Inc.
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