Re: The Day the Music Dies (was: RE: backup spool file)

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Y'all

The SYSLVL parameter of RTVOBJD takes a 9-character variable. The format is 
VnnRnnMnn. But, as Al says, there are lots of places that use 6-character 
format - not the least being all the TGTRLS parameters, which are now defined 
as *CHAR-8.

Vern

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> Rob, 
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> I have seen places where the VRM is in more than six characters, but mostly 
> it is in six characters. Too much stuff will break. The only way that 
> were able to slip a V2 to us is that it came after the collating sequence 
> after R03M00. 
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> If they can do your favorite requests like add more libraries to the 
> library list and that stuff, surely they can handle a reformatting like 
> V10R01M00? Anyway, I don't see that happening for 10 years or so. 
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> In all seriousness, most OS/400 users think that V9 is as Don McClain once 
> said, "the day the music dies". Not true, but that's the perception. 
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> Point 1: i5OS, or OS/400, or whatever the heck you want to call 
> it 
> is really an extension of CPF. 
> Point 2: Many software vendors assume that the "next release" of 
> any OS will be higher in the collating sequence than the prior release. 
> This means that changing from V9R9M9 to V1R1M0 will not be as simple a 
> process as just loading a new release. It will have to coincide with some 
> major system event, such as changing from CPF to OS/400, or CISC to RISC. 
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> I don't see a way around this. 
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> Al 
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> Al Barsa, Jr. 
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> Personally, I was betting on V9R3M6. 
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> What are you talking about Don? I know nothing about the next release of 
> OS/400. Will it be V7R4???? 
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> Al 
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