Re: QSH "Native"? was Running SQL commands from CL (or elsewhere)

[Scott Klement <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> I agree qshell is a nice tool, but calling anything from pase or qsh
> native grinds me to no end.

PASE isn't native (IMHO).  PASE is an emulation environment that allows 
you to run stuff compiled for AIX.  You could argue that it's native 
because it uses the same hardware as the System p, but to me that's a 
stretch.   PASE isn't native.

But QShell is.  QShell consists of software written specifically for i5/OS 
and compiled using i5/OS compilers.  It may be a different paradigm than 
CL, but it's entirely native.  For every Qshell command, there's an actual 
*PGM object in a traditional i5/OS library that's run to implement the 
command.

If I write an RPG program using standard ILE RPG and compile it with 
CRTBNDRPG, it's a native application.  Even if it accepts parameters that 
look like '-f /home/klemscot/foo.txt'. Even if it writes it's results to 
standard output.  It's still a native program even if it's designed to be 
run from QShell.

> Coming out with only a pase version of TSM and dropping native versions 
> of TSM led to huge performance concerns and the total dropping of i5/os 
> for Tivoli.

Again, I agree with you when it comes to PASE, but not QShell.  Please 
don't lump the two together.