Words of wisdom from the IBM i community
This may seem to be a no-brainer … but it’s very important to NOT change command parameter defaults on commands in the QSYS library. This is especially true if you use 3rd party software that may not expect your commands to have different defaults.
Screw ups, flubs, accidents … everyone’s done them. Everyone will do them. They are inevitable. We’re just human. So what’s your favorite flub?
As I’ve mentioned in previous posts … building tools can be a fun & rewarding part of the job. As part of a recent programming task, I had to do some analysis on commands to determine what parameters were supported in the SQL variant of the language compiler and what parameters were not supported. I…