RE: RE: Video Timeouts
A3 was before my time. A2 was the F7 code recompiled for the system/38
environment on the AS/400. I recall that A3 was the first version that been
altered to work native on the AS/400 but had no application changes from
A2 - that recollection may be incorrect but A3 wasn't much beyond the A2
code.
When I started at JDE, A4.2 and A4.3 were the GA releases and A5.1 as in
development. I worked on A5.1 A5.2 A6.1 A6.2 A7.1 A7.3 B7A B7B and B71 in
various technical development capacities. By A5.1, I seem to recall that
many programs had the timeout removed - the timeout had been present but it
had been removed. During the A5.1 development cycle, we wrote slimers to
remove the "multiply by 1.000001" data conversion because of negative
performance impact on some of the applications and there were plans to add
significant functionality in the M&D area that was going to require date
conversions. There were a couple more major A5 slimers but I don't recall
what they were - vocabulary overrides maybe. There was another big slimer
for insuring that double byte fields were properly terminated but I don't
recall when that one was run.
I think that I would recall if we did a slimer to add the timeout and that
is the reason that I said "no organized drive". When I came on board, the
timeout didn't work in many programs - I recall handling some response line
calls about the timeout in 1990 and 1991. I assumed that it didn't work in
many programs because it was being added in slowly. Based on your
experience, it sounds like, by A3, it had been added in for everything then,
in A4, removed from programs that suffered because of it. If that was the
case then there was an organized drive but it happened before A4.
Richard Jackson
(speaking only for myself)