Re: A dumb *S36 question

[Douglas Handy <dhandy1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

William,

>Even with all the history, I'm still not sure what I'm running --- M36 or
>S36EE??????

S36EE, not M36.

>I guess it's M36, since I just restored from a S36 tape, the data restored
>to QS36F,

Data can be restored to the S36EE.  Program objects cannot.  They must be
recompiled.

>The pgms are RPG36.  I believe the reason for having to
>even recompile is that I had to piece together the system from a crashed
>disk and poor backups,

No, you have to recompile to create *PGM objects which can be run by OS/400.
There program objects use nearly compatible RPG II source, but the object code
is much different.

The *M36 machine runs SSP itself complete with 64K program size limitations,
16-bit addresses, program overlays, etc.

>To get into it, I enter STRS36.  I've mingled some RPGLE pgms in
>(stand-alone) for utility stuff, running on logical files build over the
>QS36F library.......M36, right?????

Nope.  With M36 you never run STRS36 or any other OS/400 command for that
matter.  You cannot use RPGLE programs.  You cannot build logical files (except
S/36 alternate indexes).  Your data files are not in QS36F.  Instead you have a
portion of your DASD reserved for the exclusive use of the *M36.  To share data
between it and "native" programs would require the use of DDM as it they were on
physically separate boxes.

Doug