Re: Pitfalls of duplicated IBM commands when OS is upgraded?

Yes it applies since duplicated commands are proxies.

Yes Larry monitors this list.

I responded a while back that commands are not the only things to be concerned about. Print files, subsystem descriptions, and a host of other object folks like to change need to be in that list as well.


Jim Oberholtzer
Agile Technology Architects

On Feb 24, 2025, at 2:19 PM, Dan Bale <dan.bale@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Thank for that link, David!

Can you expand on Larry's warning? (Does Larry lurk on this list?) Does the warning apply to duplicated IBM commands that are renamed? E.g., WRKMBRPDM to WMP? WRKSPLF to SP?

- Dan Bale

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Subject: Re: Pitfalls of duplicated IBM commands when OS is upgraded?

FWIW: I wrote a blog post that discussed this general topic a while ago.

tl;dr; create a program that dupes & modifies the commands into a dedicated library. Put that library above qsys in the system library list and clear it here doing upgrades.

https://www.geekyramblings.net/2020/04/08/beware-chgcmddft/
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