Re: FAST400 and now FastACT: CFINT revealed

["Jerome Draper" <jdraper@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I wonder if the AS400 wouldn't be a more robust and ubiquitous platform
today if IBM hadn't been so secretive about the internals to the AS400.
Years ago they offered the Licensed Internal Program Interfaces (LIPI's) for
$50,000.  Then they cut the price to almost nothing.  Finally, when M$
requested the LIPI's they discontinued the program completely.  Hey, if M$
can't have them then no one can have them.

Scouts honor, this happened, ask Janet Krueger.

J

Jerome Draper, Trilobyte Software Systems, since 1976
Network and Connectivity Specialist -- Mac's, LAN's, PC's, and iSeries
Representing Synapse, Nlynx, Perle, CLI, Intermate and Others .....
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----- Original Message -----
From: Leif Svalgaard <leif@leif.org>
To: <midrange-l@midrange.com>
Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 2:49 PM
Subject: Re: FAST400 and now FastACT: CFINT revealed


> From: Carsten Flensburg <flensburg@novasol.dk>
> > The problem is getting at the system tasks (like CFINT) - I think you'd
> have
> > to resort to MI instructions to get to them; maybe Leif can shed some
> light?
> >
>
> the only way I know of is through the undocumented, top-secret, blocked,
> no-no, etc MI-instruction DIAGnose, that allows you to do all kinds of
> things: change to system state, unblock MI, counterfeit pointers, get
> task internals, etc, etc,  and that hardly qualifies as a "system API".
>
>
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