Re: hiding source from view from customer -- MIDRANGE-L

Subject: Re: hiding source from view from customer
From: David Gibbs <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2020 11:19:01 -0600
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On 2/27/20 9:40 AM, Patrik Schindler wrote:

With enough authority and effort this is true ... but trying to decipher a
*PGM object (without source) on IBM i is going to pretty difficult.

Who says it must be done on the i?

Nobody ... but that's not my point.

A *PGM object is going to be VERY difficult to reverse engineer into usable
information. I don't doubt that it COULD be done, but I only know a few people
with that skill level.

The OP was asking about how to protect source code that contains proprietary
methods, not how to protect object code.

david

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