Re: OS400/Unix authority settings

[Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Another reason not to call the QShell programs directly (I've made that 
mistake before, fortunately with no ill results) - is that the status is 
not returned when you do that. Only the STRQSH/QSH command does that.

Scott has mentioned this before, and I don't remember - I think we CAN 
write our own utilities for QShell - they just have to use the C/C++ 
interface, where what comes in is an array of char* following the number 
of items in that array. Not that I've tried this yet - oh yeah, you'd 
have to add a symbolic link into the same place where QShell puts them 
in the IFS.

I think!!
Vern

On 12/17/2010 12:40 PM, Scott Klement wrote:
> Please don't encourage people to put together a kludge like this.  You
> shouldn't call the programs in the QSHELL library directly.  If you want
> to run QShell's CHMOD program, please do this:
>
> QSH CMD('chmod 644 /your/file/name')
>
> Do not call the CHMOD program in QShell directly.  It may work now, but
> break with a PTF or future release.  The programs in the QSHELL library
> are designed to be used within the QShell environment and pay expect
> that environment to be active.  Since IBM does not offer them as APIs,
> that behavior can change without notice.