RE: Large library lists...

[barsa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

There were a number of ways that this could have been extended.

First of all, I content that 25 libraries were plenty, however vendors that
ported applications to the platform could not figure how to port their
crappy applications without something more like a PC "path".

You could have set up an "extended library"  that would have sat below the
user portion of the library list.  This would have broken no code, and
given everybody exactly what they wanted.

The (faulty) assumption is that everybody has all of the source for their
applications that were first written in the 80's.

The only good thing that can be said about this fiasco, is that my kids
need to go to very expensive colleges, and this will help ensure the cash
flow.

There is a TAA Tool help you fix the problem.  See:
http://www.taatool.com/document/L_scnlibl.htm

Al

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Al wrote:

>  V5R1 Library List Enhancement:
>
> The correct spelling of the word "enhancement" is
> "fiasco".
  <snip>
> This would be the significant first change in the
> history of the System/38, AS/400, iSeries platform
> that will break users code,

There's no doubt that this change will break code. However, I can't think
of any way to extend the limit without that happening. I've known plenty of
sites where the current limit was being pushed fairly hard and was
something of a problem. My guess is that the original limit of 25 was
chosen by the developers of the S/38 as a figure that customers could not
reasonably be expected to approach, rather like the limit of 256 computers
in a network in early SNA, although there may also have been performance
concerns back then.

Given that 25 libraries are not enough, although you might dispute this,
what are the realistic alternatives?

Dave...
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