Re: Thanks for the info on *USRQs; now a question about LOCK/UNLOCK

On 22/12/2005, at 2:02 PM, Mark S. Waterbury wrote:

> ILE CL was not introduced until V3R2M0 and V3R7M0 ... this was seen by
> customers as a "missing" component of ILE, with COBOL, RPG IV and C
> available at V3R1M0 (CISC) and V3R6M0 (RISC), but not CL, which was 
> OPM only
> ... the role of CL was seen only as a "scripting" language and not 
> fully
> understood, so the need for ILE CL was apparently not fully recognized 
> or
> appreciated.

Don't think so. I checked back through soft-copy documentation and 
found the VRM310 ILE Concepts Manual (SC41-3606-00) and it shows all 
four ILE languages (C, CL, RPG/400, and COBOL/400). Odd thing is that 
the manual has a 00 suffix indicating it is the first version but it 
contains change bars. I recall that IBM renumbered many manuals at 
Version 3 so this is probably the Version 2 manual renumbered and 
updated.

I also found the CL Reference (SC41-3722-00) which shows the following 
commands as new in VRM310:
	CALLPRC		Call Procedure
	CRTBNDCL	Create Bound CL Program
	CRTCLMOD	Create CL Module

All these commands are change flagged indicating the documentation for 
them is new with VRM310.

Interestingly the COPYRIGHT command seems to be omitted and not 
documented until VRM320/VRM370. Whether it was actually present in 
VRM310/VRM360 I cannot say.

I don't have soft-copy documentation for VRM230 and only a few 
hard-copy manuals so I have no evidence that ILE CL existed other than 
my recollection that I used it on VRM230. The information above 
suggests my recall is in error.

> When V2R3M0 introduced the Integrated Language Environment, ILE C/400 
> was
> the ONLY language.

I also found a hard copy of the VRM230 CL Programmer's Guide and it has 
no mention of the ILE component so presuming the documentation was 
current then this appears to be true and ILE CL didn't arrive until 
VRM310.

Regards,
Simon Coulter.
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