Re: Dropping of /QNTC support for certain functions

[Brad Stone <bvstone@xxxxxxxxx>]

I always tell customers to stay away from two folders.. QNTC and QDLS...
This won't break anything with SPLTOOL except for maybe a couple customers
out of thousands that probably use QNTC.  I've already saved this link for
those that run into an issue.  I may post it on FieldExit.com as well.

Also, SPLTOOL doesn't use IBM i Transformation services at all (not sure if
that was the suggestion?).  It was creating PDFs many years before IBM even
had the idea.  :)

On Thu, Oct 17, 2024 at 4:02 PM Paul Therrien via MIDRANGE-L <
midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Brad Stone - I wonder will this break SPLTOOL command SPL2STMF where the
> target is '/QNTC/...'?
>
> Paul
>
> (BTW - we use SPLTOOL all over the place. Very happy with it.)
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: MIDRANGE-L <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Rob
> Berendt
> Sent: Thursday, October 17, 2024 4:00 PM
> To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Dropping of /QNTC support for certain functions
>
> IBM will be removing (not just unsupporting) support for /QNTC for
> directly outputting reports from 5770-TS1 (IBM Transform Services for i).
> This will happen for currently supported versions of the OS and not just
> future releases.  The MTU for said releases has been updated accordingly.
> So if you do stuff like
> OVRPRTF FILE(QP1ARCY)  DEVTYPE(*AFPDS) TOSTMF(&QP1ARCY) WSCST(*PDF) and
> /QNTC was part of &QP1ARCY then store it local first and then CPY it to
> QNTC.
> Luckily we were already doing this.  At least for our BRMS recovery
> reports.
> https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6471617
>
> There are numerous other MTU updates mentioned there.
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