Re: PASE vs. OS/400|i5/OS|CPF? (Easiest way to extract GZIP or .GZ on IFS?)

Hello Vern,

Am 25.03.2025 um 11:54 schrieb Vern Hamberg via MIDRANGE-L <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

You have a way of making me hunt for things.

Sorry. :-D I know I sometimes fail to contain my curiosity and strive for real answers (instead of "it has been like that ever since, so don't ask"). ;-)

I guess I'd lobby for using PASE for itself and i5/OS for what we think of as IBM i.

Sounds good to me.

BTW, there is a job named SCPF - seems to be pretty close to the job that is part of an IPL. The job log shows objects deleted from QRPLOBJ, as well as PTF objects. Others here will know whether this job name has been around since System/38 days.

I've read a 1992 book lately, "Application Development Concepts for the IBM AS/400", author names listed: Bains, Chakravarti, Cozzi. That book alleges, SCPF is short for "Start CPF", the jobs sitting on top of LIC. If this is true, my name proposal "CPF" for that environment isn't that far fetched. :-) Especially in hindsight that OS/400's predecessor was the S/38's OS. Here I use OS/400 to name the whole software package, including everything from head to toe, or from LIC to sign-on.

Good times!

Dunno, I wasn't there. :-)

:wq! PoC