Re: How many IBM i commands are obsolete?

Hello Larry,

Am 19.10.2024 um 15:08 schrieb Larry DrFranken Bolhuis <midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:

It is my guess that these IBM i commands exist often for the same reason

I fully agree. I can't come up with another comprehensible reason IBM retaining that stuff.

But then, some parameters are outdated for decades. How many years of backwards compatibility is reasonable?

It's like dead (formerly usable) power plugs and switches in a house, leftovers from renovations and rewiring, moving walls, etc. They're there and they do nothing but they're… annoying, in a way.

Forcing users to find those parameters and remove them so that their CL programs will compile isn't very nice, so just allow the parameter to exist but ignore it.

Since when is IBM about being nice to their users? ;-)

Or just tell admins to use Navigator for i and not worry about all those 'spare commands' which they will never see!

I can't understand why some people think GUIs are the silver bullet. They might be helpful to unskilled and new admins, but the longer you work with them, the more their lack of flexibility and automation possibilities gets in the way. Your proposal is just another layer of indirection for hiding the lack of what I perceive the lack of wholesome cleanup.

I'm sure, less clutter from things being unusable anyway is welcomed by command line afficionados likewise.

Note: This is my opinion. No offense intended.

:wq! PoC