Re: How many IBM i commands are obsolete?

Vern,
I think some of the stuff SHOULD be removed from the system.
Some for clarity, like obsolete tape density options.
Some for the clarity of people not going down rabbit holes trying stuff
which doesn't work anymore. Like diskette stuff. Or OV/400 stuff (which I
hope most people removed LONG ago)..

And IBM has announced a bunch of stuff will be removed. I mean and
meant removed, not just unsupported. Whether or not the commands which use
that stuff will be removed remains to be seen.

Often, leaving obsolete stuff can really come to bite you in the butt. For
example, leaving something from 4.5 on your system and finally you're just
now trying to remove it only to find the uninstall fails since it won't run
on the OS you're currently running. The uninstall might not pass object
conversion, require an obsolete version of Java, require some qpase module
which has changed versions and isn't compatible any longer, etc.

CEAC seems to understand this a lot better than CAAC.