Re: Woes on ANZOBJCVN...

[Al Barsa <barsa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Joe,

With all due respect.  IBM kept this as a @#$%ing state secret until last
summer.  When we did CISC-to-RISC, they were all over the airwaves for two
years talking about the observability issue.  I talk to vendors every day
that don't believe that they have to recompile their code.  Unless IBM
pulls off a full court press, this could make V3R1 look like a field day!

Al

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Walden H. Leverich wrote:
> How come, when MS changes something that makes old code break everyone
> yells at MS and points out how we never have this problem on System i,
> but when IBM changes stuff that makes old code break it's the vendor's
> fault? Hmmmm????

Other people will probably chime in, Walden, but I think it's because
IBM gives everybody a long lead time, plenty of notice, and a specific
way to address the problem, and it's usually pretty simple.  In this
case, it's as easy as recompiling your programs.  There have been
numerous occasions when Microsoft has completely broken backwards
compatibility at both the source and object level (VB.NET being one of
the classic examples).

But that's just my personal opinion.  YMMV :)

Joe
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