Re: How many IBM i commands are obsolete?

I think the basic assumption is kind of weak - all the recent announcements have said some things will no longer be marketed, nor supported. Nothing said that these things will be removed from existing systems.

Rob mentioned CRTDEVDKT - we are on 7.3, and I ran GO CMDDEV - CRTDEVDKT was not in that list - the command does still exist on the machine, I was able to prompt it.


Patrik, you might run GO CMDDEV on one of your systems, I wonder if was still there at V4 or whatever.


Cheers
Vern


On Thu, 17 Oct, 2024 at 12:33 PM, Patrik Schindler <poc@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


To: midrange systems technical discussion

Hello James,

Am 17.10.2024<http://17.10.2024> um 17:54 schrieb James H. H. Lampert via MIDRANGE-L <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>>:

I'm a firm believer in the "hairpin hypothesis," as propounded in Alan Dean Foster's *Star Trek Log Six* (not sure which episode adaptation it's in):

Scotty declares that "No tool is so useless that something can't be found it can be used to fix."

I guess Rob has something else in mind: Remove commands which are there but have no functionality anymore because the base features in SLIC have been removed.

Commands which no longer work (as in "do something useful"), or parameters which are stated to be still there for compatibility reasons but no longer being used are also candidates if I understand Rob correctly

And I fully agree to him.

:wq! PoC