Re: V5R3 Quirk!

["Mark Allen" <scprideandms@xxxxxxxxx>]

There are 4 things my wife ABSOLUTLEY pounds into the heads of students
taking her 400/iSeries/i5 classes

1.  Recompiling a PF will leave you with no data.
2.  QTEMP and it's use
3.  F1 and F4 are your friends
4.  Make sure you book mark www.midrange.com


On 9/14/06, Steve Landess <sjl_abc@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Paul Nelson wrote:
> > IIRC, it was like this even in the System/38 days. How long has this
> > developer been around?
>
> >
> >> then Larry Leibowitz wrote:
> >> There is no reason to criticize a question posted to this board. I know
> >> it was long ago when we first got our midrange start, but we do need to
> >> remember that not everyone has our experience. For us to survive in the
> >> midrange world, we certainly need new comers on board.
>
> Don't be so thin-skinned, Larry...
>
> I stand by Paul...
>
> Any developer who has been working more than a year on an IBM S/38 -
> AS/400 - iSeries system should know that each job has its own QTEMP
> library.
>
> I suspect that your developer (or someone) had previously created a copy
> of
> the file in one of the system libraries {possibly QGPL (bad), or QSYS
> (very
> bad)}, and when the partition was upgraded to V5R3 this file was blown
> away,
> thus causing the compile to fail after the upgrade.
>
> Some people have 20 years of experience - but MANY people have 1 year of
> experience 20 times...
>
> Steve Landess
> Austin, Texas
> (512) 423-0935
>
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