The TAA Productivity Tools are updated periodically for new tools,
enhancements, and fixes. New versions are shipped a few times per
year.
This document combines the most recent refresh notes that were
previously in separate documents for new tools, enhanced tools, fixes,
and incompatibilities. The document is organized by refresh with the
most recent refresh listed first.
The complete set of release notes can be found on https://taatool.com.
2024-01-15 (T101)
Refresh T101 (January 15, 2024) is for IBM i 7.3, 7.4, and 7.5.
No further refreshes will be made for IBM i 7.2. However, fixes to 7.2
tools will continue to be supplied on an "as needed" basis until April
30, 2024.
No further refreshes or fixes will be made for IBM i 7.1 or earlier
releases.
IBM i 7.5 Notes
IBM has made a couple of changes in IBM i 7.5 that affect the results
returned to the tools. The tools have been modified to accomodate
these changes. You will have issues on IBM i 7.5 with CVTEDTD,
CVTIFSAUT2, and DSPIFSOWN and tools that depend on them until you
install this refresh. See the notes for the individual tools below.
- CVTEDTD was affected by a spooled file output change.
- While not technically incompatible the QSYLOBJA API now reports
IFS path data in CCSID 1200 rather than the job CCSID. CVTIFSAUT2
and DSPIFSOWN were affected by this change. CVTIFSAUT2 is used by
RVKIFSAUT, RVKIFSPGP, RNMIFSAUT, and RNMIFSPGP.
- It should also be noted that the CVTIFSOWN command also uses
QSYLOBJA. Since the reporting CCSID is included in the CVTIFSOWN
output, the path name data in the output file is also reported in
this CCSID. If are using CVTIFSOWN you may need to make changes to
convert from the reported CCSID.
Refresh Names
We are adopting a new scheme for naming our refreshes. Our Rxx
numbering was being confused with IBM's numbering of their releases.
Refreshes are now named Tnnn, beginning with T101, this refresh. The T
is either for "Tools" or "TAA" depending on your preference. We hope
this makes things a bit less confusing.
The numbering of previous refreshes in our release notes will remain
the same.
New Tools
There are no new tools in this refresh. There are some new ones
planned for the next refresh.
Enhancements
- CVTDEVPRT
The output file for Convert Device Printer command has a new field
for the last activity date added to the end of the record format.
This can be useful if you have a large number of printers to track
down the ones that are no longer being used.
- CVTIFSOWN
Convert IFS Owners has been updated as described in our newsletter
to convert path names on IBM i 7.5 from CCSID 1200 to the job
CCSID so that they are more compatible with previous TAATOOL
refreshes and IBM i releases.
- CVTMSGQ
Convert Message Queue had a restriction that limited it to about
30,000 messages. This limit has been removed.
- DSPJOBLOG3
The Display Job Log 3 tool has a new REFRESH keyword that is used
to view all the messages in the current job in a more convenient
form than that provided by F10 or by DSPJOBLOG. Try it with
DSPJOBLOG3 REFRESH(*YES).
- DSPRCDLCK2
The Display Record Locks 2 command would complain about duplicate
job names if duplicates existed even if only one of the duplicates
was in active state. Since record locks can only exist in active
jobs, the tool was enhanced to look for duplicates only in active
jobs rather than all jobs.
- DUPFILFMT
Duplicate File Format is extended to remove some limits on the
file being created. This is important for RTVDLTRCD to handle
extremely large files.
- RTVDEVPRT
The Retrieve Device Printer command has a new keyword for the last
activity date.
- RTVDLTRCD
Retrieve Deleted Records was enhanced to allow for much larger
files than it previously handled. See also DUPFILFMT enhancements
needed for RTVDLTRCD.
- WRKJOB2
WRKJOB2 now includes the completion date and time as the last
column of the display for jobs in *OUTQ status.
- WRKJOBSTS
Option 5 now does a WRKJOB immediately rather than prompting.
Disconnect has moved from Option 7 to Option 13 to be consistent
with WRKACTJOB.
Fixes
- ANZOUTQ
The Analyze Output Queue could run out of array space for very
large queues. The tool now stops recording unique values in each
section after 9998 have been found so the arrays never overflow.
- CHGUSRPWD3
The CHGUSRPWD3 command did not monitor for the possible CPD escape
messages sent by the APIs. The command now monitors for those.
- CHKINACT
The Check Inactive Job Timeout tool would ignore a *ALL *ALL entry
if one was entered using WRKINACT. This entry is no longer
ignored. This has the effect of overriding the default action
stored in the application value TAASECURE/CHKINACT. If such an
entry is not present then the application value becomes the
default.
- CMPJRNIMG2
The tool was incorrectly checking for a limit of 199 on the number
of fields. This has been corrected to 998.
- CPYSRCFIFS
CPYSRCFIFS did not issue reasonable error messages if the user was
not authorized to the source file. New error messages have been
added.
- CPYUSRPRF2
Copy User Profile 2 is used on the SECOFR2 menu option 7. Code
from the SECOFR2 menu was moved to the prompt override program to
avoid a security exception when using option 7.
- CVTCFGSTS
This tool would fail if executed in a server job such as one
running SQL Scripts in ACS. This has been fixed.
- CVTIFSOWN
There was a change in the IBM i 7.5 IFS APIs that returns path
names in CCSID 1200 which is a UTF-16 CCSID. The code in CVTIFSOWN
now takes the path name CCSID into account and converts it to the
job CCSID for display and for use in commands.
- CVTNETSTAT
The CVTNETCNN command of the CVTNETSTAT tool was failing when
there was a large number of connections. The limits have been
increased and the problem fixed.
- CVTOUTQ
CVTOUTQ could receive a CPF3C44 exception if the output queue
being converted had been moved from one ASP to another. CPF3C44
indicates that the internal spool id for a spooled file is no
longer valid. CVTOUTQ was changed to not rely on internal spool
ids. In addition CVTOUTQ could receive a CPF3C43 exception if the
internal job id was no longer valid. This has been fixed.
- DLTIFS
The DLTIFS command would not delete files if the file name
contained trailing blanks. This has been corrected.
- DLTOLDQRPL
The DLTOLDQRPL command would send an escape message if the total
size of the objects remaining in QRPL exceeded 99,999,999,999
bytes. This has been increased.
- DSPALLSAVF
The DSPALLSAVF command would not work when used from the FNDCMD
list. This was due to conflicting overrides which have been fixed.
- DSPDLTSPC
There was a possibility receiving a library not found message if
the time between gathering the list of libraries and examining
them was large enough for the library to be deleted in the
interim. An additional test was added so that the timing window is
now much smaller.
- DSPJOBLOG3
The Display Job Log 3 tool would occasionally get lost when
viewing large job log spooled files. The tool has been rewritten
to avoid this issue.
- DSPJOBLOG5
The Display Job Log 5 tool will filter just the last escape
message and its related messages from a spooled job log file. If
the job log being analyzed was too long this would fail with an
array indexing error. This has been fixed.
- DSPJOBSCDC
The Display Job Scheduler Calendar would fail with an exception if
a *WEEKLY entry had *NONE for the days. This circumstance would be
unusual, but valid. This has been fixed.
- DSPMSG2
The Display Message 2 had an issue with filtering messages when
used with explicit start and end times. This has been fixed.
- DSPOBJD3
Display Object Description 3 allows for the examination of all
libraries for objects. It would fail if the number of libraries
examined was over 999. The limit has been extended.
- DSPPWDLMT
Display Password Limit was not using the time and date ranges
specified on the command. This has been fixed.
- DSPTAACAT
DSPTAACAT would fail in Refresh R73 since we finally exceeded the
array length for the number of tools in the product. We should
have caught this one before shipping. Mea culpa.
- GENRANPWD2
GENRANPWD2 would accidentally modify the PWDLEN parameter when
used due to a parameter mismatch. This has been fixed.
- MOVSPLF
MOVSPLF could fail in the cases where job numbers wrap so there
are two identical job names with the same spooled file with the
same spooled file number. While unlikely, this can happen when
there are report jobs that are run every day for years. MOVSPLF
will now pick one of those files instead of failing.
- RMVMSGQMS2
Remove Message Queue Message 2 would fail if examining multiple
queues and a queue was deleted after the list of queues was
constructed. Any queues not found are now just skipped.
- RTVFLDDTA
Retrieve Field Data would get a CPF0006 if run a second time
before finalization. This was due to a working variable holding a
constructed CHKOBJ command not being initialized. This has been
fixed.
- RTVJOBA2
The RTVJOBA2 command could fail in circumstances with a
subscripting error when the information to be retrieved was too
long for the area allocated. The area has been extended to handle
that case.
- RTVSPLSIZ
The Retrieve Spool Size tool could run out of room in a temporary
file when working with a very large QSPL library. This would
result in messages to QSYSOPR and possible cancellation. The
maximum number of records in this temporary file has been
increased substantially.
- SECOFR2
Code from the SECOFR2 menu was moved to the prompt override
program of CPYUSRPRF2 to avoid a security exception when using
option 7.
Changes to output files
- CVTDEVPRT
The outfile for CVTDEVPRT has been modified to add a new field to
the end of the record format. Outfiles from previous versions of
the tool may need to be deleted. The tool will re-create these on
first use.
Incompatibilities
There are no known incompatibilities in this refresh.
2022-06-15 (R73)
Refresh 73 (June 15, 2022) is for IBM i 7.3, 7.4, and 7.5.
No further refreshes will be made for IBM i 7.2. However, fixes to 7.2
tools will continue to be supplied on an "as needed" basis until April
30, 2024.
No further refreshes or fixes will be made for IBM i 7.1 or earlier
releases.
IBM i 7.5 Notes
IBM has made a couple of changes in IBM i 7.5 that affect the results
returned to the tools. The tools have been modified to accomodate
these changes. If you are migrating from a previous IBM i release such
as 7.3 or 7.4 you should update your tools to refresh R73 prior to the
upgrade. If you do not update your tools you will have issues with the
CVTEDTD, CVTIFSAUT2, and DSPIFSOWN and tools that depend on them. See
the notes for the individual tools below.
CVTEDTD was affected by a spooled file output change.
While not technically incompatible the QSYLOBJA API now reports IFS
path data in CCSID 1200 rather than the job CCSID. CVTIFSAUT2 and
DSPIFSOWN were affected by this change. CVTIFSAUT2 is used by
RVKIFSAUT, RVKIFSPGP, RNMIFSAUT, and RNMIFSPGP.
It should also be noted that the CVTIFSOWN command also uses QSYLOBJA.
Since the reporting CCSID is included in the CVTIFSOWN output, the
path name data in the output file is also reported in this CCSID. If
are using CVTIFSOWN you may need to make changes to convert from the
reported CCSID.
Architecture Changes
Source Code Packaging
We are changing the way tools are packaged as source files.
Each tool has a "builder", a set of commands that is used by
CRTTAATOOL that are used to build the tool from its source code. These
builders were packaged in monolithic programs used by CRTTAATOOL. We
are now packaging these builders with the tool itself.
Likewise the command help for a tool was packaged with the command
help for other tools in large panel groups. Now the command help will
be packaged in a separate panel group and packaged with each tool.
The intent of these changes is to make the tools a bit more
self-contained so that enhancements can be made more easily.
These changes will be made over time to existing tools and will have
no external effects other than you may see extra members if you unpack
the source for a tool.
Use of the ILE Program Model
Many of the tools existed prior to the introduction of the ILE program
model. As tools are modified for fixes and enhancements we may elect
to convert them to the ILE program model.
All new tools will be written to the ILE program model. In addtion,
all new RPGLE code will be written as fully free-format.
The intent of this change is to make the future creation and
modification of tools more robust.
These should be no external effects of these changes.
New Tools
- CPYSRCFIFS
This tool will copy selected members of source files in a library
into the IFS. It is meant to provide an easy way to populate an
IFS directory from source physical files. You may wish to do this
if comparing sources across systems or when you wish to establish
a source directory usable with Source Control Management tool that
operates on Unix or Windows style directories.
- RUNTAABLDR
This command will compile and run a builder program for a tool.
All new tools are written with these builder programs, allowing
them to be easily patched onto existing systems.
Enhancements
- CPYFRMCSV
Copy From Comma Separated Values tool has two commands: CPYFRMCSV
and CPYFRMCSV2. Both were enhanced to allow DOC objects to be used
in addition to STMF object in the FROMSTMF keyword. The commands
also now allow using a | as a field separator character.
- CPYSPLFIFS
Copy Spooled File to IFS would create the spooled file with
AUT(NONE) if the PDF option was used. This was changed to use the
authorities of the containing directory similar to the system's
CPYSPLF.
- CPYUSRPRF2
The Copy User Profile 2 command would not allow a user profile to
be created if ALLCRTCHG was specified in the QPWDRULES system
value. This restriction has been removed. If ALLCRTCHG is
specified then CPYUSRPRF2 will create a new profile from a
template and assign a password to that profile that satisfies the
password rules defined by the system values.
- CVTCERT
Convert Certificates has been enhanced to allow any user that has
the certificate store password to request a list of certificate
expiration dates from a certificate store. This was previously
only available to those users that had the password and had ALLOBJ
and SECADM special authorities. The Convert Certificates command
did not provide a very helpful messages when the user did not have
the correct password or the proper authorities. The error messages
issued are now use the system provided text.
- RTVIFSEAUT
Retrieve IFS Entry Authorities has had minor enhancements to its
internals for ILE. There should be no external effects.
- SNDSPLMAIL
Send Spool Mail has been converted to ILE and the new tool source
format. There should be no external effects.
- RSNLSTMSG
The Resend Last Message command will now skip the Program Entry
Procedure of ILE CL programs if one exists and send the message to
the caller of that program.
Fixes
- CHKIFSE
Check IFS Entry had a bug in which it detected the root IFS
directory, /, as not found. This affected a number of tools that
used CHKIFSE such as FTP2. Fortunately, not too many explicit
references to the root directory are made. This has been fixed.
It was also noted in the documentation that a CPF9898 escape
message could be sent to the caller if an unusual exception not
expected by the code occurred. Communications errors fall into
this category.
- CMPLIB2
The Compare Library 2 tool would fail if the files object files in
the TOLIB library were empty. This could occur if the CAPLIB2
command was incorrectly used. The CMPLIB2 command now tolerates
this condition.
- CMPSYSVAL
Compare System Values would get an array index out of bounds if
the member on which it was operating actually contained more than
one set of data. This could show up in CMPSYSVAL or in CMPSECINF.
The system value data would have to be duplicated in one of the
members being compared for this problem to surface.
- CPYTOCSV
The Copy to CSV command would produce incorrect results if varying
length fields were present in the database file being copied. This
has been fixed.
- CVTEDTD
The Convert Edit Descriptions tool would fail in IBM i 7.5. The
tool works from the DSPEDTD spooled file output, which has been
changed in this release to add apostrophes around some of the
character fields. The tool has been modified to on IBM i 7.3, 7.4,
and 7.5 to account for the apostrophes.
- CVTIFSAUT2
The CVTIFSAUT2 command would fail on IBM i 7.5 due to a change in
the QSYLOBJA API which now reports path information in CSSID 1200
rather than the job CCSID. This command has been updated to
accomodate that change. Errors would also show up in the following
tools: RNMIFSAUT, RVKIFSAUT, RNMIFSPGP, and RVKIFSPGP which use
the CVTIFSAUT2 command internally. No changes were needed to those
tools.
- CVTOPNF
There was a small timing window in the Convert Open Files command
where it could issue a function check instead of a "job not found"
message. This has been fixed.
- CVTSBSD
The list of job queues in Convert Subsystem Description when using
the TYPE(*JOBQENT) option could be incorrect. This has been fixed.
CVTSBSD is used in other tools such as WRKSBSJOBQ.
- DLTOLDSPLF
Delete Old Spooled Files had a minor bug in which it would fail if
the underlying CVTOUTQ attempted to create the QGYSERVER jobs
needed to process output queues and those jobs hit the maximum
limit of the subsystem in which it was running. The tool was
modified to use a new version of CVTOUTQ that avoids the creation
of auxiliary jobs.
- DSPIFSOWN
The QSYLOBJA API in IBM i 7.5 now reports IFS path name attributes
in CCSID 1200 instead of the job CCSID. DSPIFSOWN converts the
delimiter and path names back to the job CCSID for display.
- GENRANPWD2
The Generate Random Password 2 had a bug where *REQANY3 was not
handled properly if *DGTMIN0 and *SPCCHRMIN0 were defaulted or
specified. The fix was to force mixed case and at least one
special character if *DGTMAX0. A digit will be generated if
*DGTMAXn was either not specified or n is greater than 0.
- RSTAUTL
Restore Authorization Lists would fail if there was an unusually
large number of authorization lists to process. The temporary
database file it uses was changed to allow a larger number of
records.
- RTVIFSED
The Retrieve IFS Entry Description tool would leave a request
message in the job log if the IFS entry being examined did not
exist. The request message is now removed properly.
- RTVSMTPA
Both the RTVSMPTA and RTVSMTPA2 commands had a *ANY value that
performed no useful function. This special value has been removed
from both commands.
- SAVCHG23
The Save Change 23 command constructed an invalid SAVCHGOBJ
command if the list of BYPASS libraries contained a library name
that was 10 characters. Appropriate spacing is now done.
- SCNIFS
The Scan IFS command would fail if a special value was supplied on
the OBJ keyword. This has been fixed.
- SRCARC
The Source Archive tool had a bug in the WRKSRCARC screen where it
would not display or "copy out" source if the screen was in
"display library" mode. This has been fixed.
- WRKALLSPLF
Work with All Spooled Files could resend a CPF34C4 if there were
too many spooled files on the system. This message is now handled
instead of resent.
Incompatibilities
- RTVSMTPA and RTVSMTPA2 have had the *ANY value removed. This value
did not not provide any useful function and was confusing when
prompted.
- Commands that refer to previous releases (7.5 only)
All save commands, most compile commands, and commands that use
*PRV compiler support have had their TGTRLS parameters updated for
7.5. While technically incompatible with previous release this is
consistent with IBM i 7.5 changes. The following commands have
been affected:
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Tool Command Description
------------ ------------ -------------------------------------------------
CHKPGMRLS CHKPGMRLS Check Program Release - CHKPGMRLS
CHKTGTRLS CHKTGTRLS Check Target Release - CHKTGTRLS
CMPOUTFILE CMPOUTFILE Compare System Outfiles - CMPOUTFILE
CRTBNDCL2 CRTBNDCL2 Create Bound CL Pgm 2 - CRTBNDCL2
CRTBNDRPG2 CRTBNDRPG2 Create Bound RPG Pgm 2 - CRTBNDRPG2
CRTSFLPGM CRTSFLPGM Create Subfile Program - CRTSFLPGM
CRTSFLPGM RPLSFLPGM Replace Subfile Program - RPLSFLPGM
CRTSFLPGM2 CRTSFLPGM2 Create Subfile Program 2 - CRTSFLPGM2
CRTTGTRLS CRTTGTRLS Create Target Release - CRTTGTRLS
RPLGENPGM RPLGENPGM Replace Generic Programs - RPLGENPGM
RPLMOD RPLMOD Replace Module - RPLMOD
RPLOBJ RPLOBJ Replace Object - RPLOBJ
RPLPGM RPLPGM Replace Program - RPLPGM
SAVACT SAVALLACT Save All Active - SAVALLACT
SAVACT SAVCHGACT Save Changed Active - SAVCHGACT
SAVJRNRCV SAVJRNRCV Save Journal Receivers - SAVJRNRCV
SAVLIBIFS SAVLIBIFS Save Library to IFS - SAVLIBIFS
SAVOBJIFS SAVOBJIFS Save Object to IFS - SAVOBJIFS
SAVONELIB SAVONELIB Save One Library - SAVONELIB
SAVOWNOBJ SAVOWNOBJ Save Owned Objects - SAVOWNOBJ
SAVRCVL SAVRCVL Save and Receive Library with FTP - SAVRCVL
SAVRCVL SBMSAVRCVL Submit Save and Receive Lib with FTP - SBMSAVRCVL
SAVSNDL SAVSNDL Save and Send Library with FTP - SAVSNDL
SAVSNDL SBMSAVSNDL Submit Save and Send Lib - SBMSAVSNDL
SAVSNDM SAVSNDM Save and Send Member with FTP- SAVSNDM
SAVSRCF SAVSRCF Save Source Files - SAVSRCF
SNDOBJMAIL SNDOBJMAIL Send Object Mail - SNDOBJMAIL
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2021-05-15 (R72)
Refresh 72 (May 15, 2021) is for IBM i 7.2, 7.3, and 7.4. This is the
last refresh for IBM i 7.2.
No further refreshes will be made for IBM i 7.2. However, fixes to 7.2
tools will continue to be supplied on an "as needed" basis until April
30, 2024.
No further refreshes or fixes will be made for IBM i 7.1.
New Tools
- CPUMON
The CPU Monitor tool monitors for jobs that consume CPU resources
above a specified CPU percentage. When a job is found running
above the CPU limit, a message alert is sent to the specified
message queue describing the job which is using too much
processing time. If several jobs are found to be over the limit,
multiple messages will be sent to the message queue - one for each
detected job.
- RTVJOBSPLC
The Retrieve Job Spool Count tool will efficiently return the
number of spooled files created in a job. This count includes
files in FIN state and can be used to compare against the system
value QMAXSPLF to see if a job is near the system specified limit.
Enhancements
- CHKJOBMSGW
A new keyword, JOBQ, has been added to specify where to submit the
CHKJOBMSGW job. It defaults to QSYS/QSYSNOMAX, which was the queue
used prior to this enhancement.
- CRTSTDSRCF
A new keyword, BYPEXIST, was added to Create Standard Source
Files. The default is *NO and that preserves the previous
function. *YES will allow the files that do not exist in the
specified library to be created.
- DSPMSGQA
The Display Message Queue Attributes tool was enhanced so that the
printed report now includes all the attributes of the displayed
report.
- DUPALLSPLF
Time fields have been added to the FROMDATE and TODATE parameters
for DUPALLSPLF. This allows for a much finer-grained duplication.
- ENDSBSJOB
*CURRENT was added as a parameter for the USER keyword.
- MNTALLJRN
The Maintain All Journals command has a new parameter that allows
the deletion of journal receivers that are in %ELG state. This
happens if the receiver has been saved, but no save date is
present in the object description. This happens for receivers that
have been saved with UPDHST(*NO). Receivers in QSYS are usually
saved this way.
Fixes
- Install
The CRTFNDCMD that indexes commands at the very end of the install
process could fail in very rare circumstances when indexing the
commands in all libraries. Install has been modified to index only
QSYS and TAATOOLS. If other libraries are desired you can rerun
CRTFNDCMD after the the install has completed with the libraries
of your choice.
- CAPSECINF
The RFMSECINF command of the Capture Security Information tool is
automatically invoked if changes in the security information file
formats are detected. A bug was fixed that would fail to reformat
the user profile files correctly.
- CHGLIBOWN
The CHGLIBOWN tools would receive a MCH1210 exception when dealing
with extremely large libraries. This has been fixed.
- CHKBLKFLD
The Check Blank Field command would attempt to use an incorrect
message file when sending a message about an empty member. This
has been fixed.
- CHKIFSE
The Check IFS Entry command would fail if the path specified ended
with a '\'. This has been fixed.
There was also an issue where \ was not being converted to / if
the path was "triple-quoted". This has been fixed as well.
- CPYFRMCSV
The Copy from Comma Delimited File command would fail with a
CPF3303 error if it was run in a server job, such as from an ACS
SQL session. This was due to the the fact that spooled files in
server jobs are created in a separate QPRTJOB job instead of the
server job. The QPDDSSRC spooled file that was causing the issue
is now owned by the server job and properly deleted.
- CPYFRMSTM2
The Copy from Stream File 2 command would fail if copying from a
stream file with an extremely long name. This has been fixed.
- CRTDBFJRN
This command would fail when converting from a table created with
DDL that contains CURRENT_TIME or CURRENT_TIMESTAMP defaults. This
has been fixed. The command would also fail if run in a server job
since it could not find a temporary spooled file. That file is now
owned by the server job instead of the QPRTJOB for the current
user.
- CVTIFS
The pattern matching algorithm used in CVTIFS would not properly
match some complex patterns i.e. those with multiple asterisks.
The asterisk now matches the shortest string between constant
strings in the pattern even if that string is a null string.
- CVTIFSAUT2
In extremely rare circumstances the Convert IFS Authorities 2
command could get an MCH0601 as it was processing the user space
returned by an API. This has been fixed.
- CVTJOB
The Convert Job command would fail if there were more than enough
jobs to fill a single user space with the QUSLJOB API (about
280,000 jobs). The tool has been updated to use the QUSLJOB
continuation handle support. There is now no practical limit to
the number of jobs it can convert.
- CVTOBJAUT
The CVTOBJAUT command does not work with QTEMP, but using it on
QTEMP failed to give an adequate report. This has been fixed.
- CVTSBSD
The CVTSBSD command would produce some error messages when
examining the job queues of subsystem descriptions. This did not
affect the results, but could be confusing. Those error messages
have been removed.
- DLTUSRPRF3
If DLTUSRPRF3 was used to transfer ownership of objects when
deleting a user profile those objects were deleted instead of
being transferred. We issued a HIPER Alert for this and
distributed the fix early. That fix is included in this refresh.
Note that the patch had 'Delete User Prof 3 - TAA-0001' as the
prompt heading for the command. This refresh restores the previous
prompt heading of 'Delete User Profile 3 - TAA'.
- DSPALLJLG
Display All Joblogs would fail with a CPF34C4 (list too large for
user space) if there were a fairly large number spooled files on
the system. The code has been changed to ignore this error and
process whatever spooled files are returned by the QUSLSPL API.
- DSPALLSPLF
Display All Spooled Files would fail with a CPF34C4 (list too
large for user space) if there were a fairly large number spooled
files on the system. The code has been changed to ignore this
error and process whatever spooled files are returned by the
QUSLSPL API.
- ENDSBS2
The ENDSBS2 command would fail if the subsystem referred to in the
command was already ending controlled. The command now recognizes
this situation and proceeds.
- NBRCTR
The ADDNBRCTR command of the NBRCTR tool would receive a size
exception when the amount to add keyword was 99999. This has been
fixed.
- PRTALLOUTQ
The Print All Output Queues would fail if an output queue exceeded
13,000 spooled files. This limit has been increased to 1,000,000
spooled files.
- PRTLIBANL
The PRTLIBANL command would fail doing a CPYF if there was a
mismatch between the outfiles used by it and the DSPUSRPRF
command. This could happen if the tools and the underlying IBM i
were out of sync. A *MAP option was added to the CPYF command to
prevent this.
- RTVOBJJRNA
The Retrieve Object Journal Attributes would send a TAA9896 escape
message indicating that only physical files could be journaled
when presented with a logical file that had a journaled access
path. This now reports correctly for logical files.
- RTVOBJLST
The RTVOBJLST tool would receive a MCH1210 when dealing with
extremely large libraries. This has been fixed.
- RTVPFSRC
The Retrieve PF Source command will not retrieve CURRENT_TIME or
CURRENT_TIMESTAMP defaults from DDL into DDS since these are not
allowed in DDS. It will no longer attempt to generate ALIAS
keywords if the name that contain a #, $, or @. These cause DDS
errors. The command also now works when the current user and job
user are different, such as in a server job.
- RTVSTGPOOL
The Retrieve Storage Pool command is used by the Display Subsystem
command. In systems with very large main stores this command would
fail of the storage size in KB exceeded 9 digits. If this happens
now, the value returned is 999,999,999.
- SNDIFSMAIL
The Send IFS Mail command is can be used stand-alone or
internally. It constructs a temporary working folder with a unique
name in /QDLS/TAAFLR. If that folder name was longer than 4
characters the resulting document name would be truncated and the
tool would fail. This would happen only after about 1.6 million
uses of the tool. This has been fixed.
- SNDSPLPDF
The Send Spool File as PDF command would fail if the number
counter used by the tool to create unique working folders in the
IFS did not exist. This has been fixed so that the counter is
created. The command might also fail if the working folders
existed. The command now skips over existing working folders.
- SNDTXTMAIL
The Send Text Mail command constructs and issues a LOGMAILENT
command. This would fail if the MAILADRP address name contains
non-system-name characters such as a hyphen. The address names are
now quoted if they contain non-system-name characters.
- SPLARC
The STRSPLARC command of the Spool Archive tool did not take the
spooled file creation date into account when looking for spooled
files to archive. This led to rare situations where the wrong file
was archived if there was a job number wrap condition. This has
been fixed by checking the spooled file creation date as well.
- SRCARC
The SRCARC tool had several commands that had limiting dates of
2020-12-31. These have all been changed to 2099-12-31.
- STRJRNLIB2
This would stop processing objects in a library if it ran into a
logical file that had its access path already being journaled. It
now skips those files and continues as it does with other objects
that are already journaled.
- WRKASP
The Work with ASPs command would duplicate the previous ASP name
on the display if an ASP was found but was in offline state. This
now shows as *OFFLINE.
- WRKSPLF2
The Work with Spooled Files 2 command would fail if the combined
queues being examined exceeded 9999 spooled files. The display is
now capped at 9998 spooled files.
Incompatibilities
- There are no known incompatibilities in this refresh.
2020-04-15 (R71)
Refresh 71 (April 15, 2020) is for IBM i 7.2, 7.3, and 7.4.
No further refreshes will be made for IBM i 7.1. However, fixes to 7.1
tools will continue to be supplied on an "as needed" basis until April
30, 2021.
New Tools
- CVTACCPTH
The Convert Access Path command produces an outfile of physical
and logical files which have a 4 GB max access path limit. The
outfile can be checked for files which are approaching their 4 GB
limit. Use of this tool could prevent applications to fail if the
4 GB limit is surpassed.
- CVTCERT
The Convert Certificates command produces an outfile of
information from server or certificate authority certificates on
your system. Most notably, certificate expiration dates are
output, giving administrators an easy way of checking which
certificates need to be renewed before they expire.
Enhancements
- Install
The installation procedure now has the capability of adding new
keys to application values found in TAASECURE. This will allow
future tools to add new capabilities using application values
without adding entirely new APPVAL structures in that library.
- CHGOWNOBJ
The Change Owned Objects command has been enhanced to include two
new parameters: ACTION and ESCAPE. ACTION(*CHECK) allow you to see
what would be changed if ACTION(*CHANGE) is used. *CHANGE is the
default. ESCAPE(*YES) will prevent the use of any profile
beginning with Q. This is to prevent the wholesale assignment of
ownership from system-supplied profile. *YES is the default. This
introduces an incompatibility.
- CVTOBJLCK
The Convert Object Lock command converts object locks to the
OBJLCKP data base file with one record per lock. This allows you
to determine who has the lock within a program. A field was added
to show the current user profile holding the lock.
- CVTOUTQ
Convert Output Queue uses a system API to find the contents of an
output queue. Normally this system API will submit auxiliary jobs
to perform an ansynchronous listing of the queue contents. This
makes the tool more responsive. In some cases this submission of
auxiliary jobs is not desirable; for example, when the subsystem
in which this tool runs is near its maximum number of jobs. A new
AUXJOB keyword has been added to the command to suppress these
jobs and perform the listing synchronously.
- MTNJRN
A new SEQOPT keyword was added to Maintain Journal so that the
sequence numbers in the journal receivers can be reset during
MTNJRN processing. The default is to continue the sequence numbers
as it had been doing.
- RTVMTHDAT / RTVSOMDAT
These two commands allow retrieval of dates based on specified
criteria. RTVMTHDAT and RTVSOMDAT commands have been enhanced to
support the *NEXT value for MONTH and YEAR parameters.
- SCNALLSRC2
Scan All Source 2 will scan for up to 20 arguments in source files
in one or more libraries. SCNALLSRC2 was enhanced with a FILE
parameter, allowing the search to be narrowed to named source
files, such as QCLSRC, QRPGLE, etc.
- SECOFR2
The SECOFR2 menu entry for CPYUSRPRF2 now allows the prompt for
this command to be tailored so that the new PWDEXP and CHGOWN
parameters can be masked. See the documentation for SECOFR2 for
more information.
- WRKVTP
Work with Virtual Tape allows you to review and control the
virtual tape devices created by CRTVTP. WRKVTP usage of available
resources was improved by refreshing the available resource list
before executing F8 = Avail Resources. Also, F9 command text was
improved to indicate that either a 'Not detected' resource or a
New resource will be returned.
Fixes
- ADDJOBSCD2
The Add Job Scheduler 2 command is used to add multiple job
scheduler entries from a database file. A quoted entry would cause
problems for subsequent entries found in the file. This has been
fixed.
- ALCTMPMBR
The Allocated Temporary Member tool is used internally by several
other tools. In extremely rare circumstances this tool would fail
and the tool using it would report the failure. It would have to
be the first tool executed after midnight on a given day. This has
been fixed. This initially showed up occuring in CVTQHST2.
- CPYGENSRC
The Copy Generic Source command options for the source file lists
(SRC1, SRC2, and *SRC3) were not working. The source lists are now
read and processed correctly.
- CVTLIBCNT
Convert Library Count creates an outfile with one record
summarizing the objects in each library requested. CVTLIBCNT was
fixed to bypass libraries that are too large to process in the
user space. When CVTLIBCNT encounters such a library, it bypasses
that library and then goes on to process the remaining libraries
requested. An escape message is sent at the end in this situation.
- CVTTAPSAVD
This Convert Tape Save Description command would fail if the
device was a tape library or autoloader, a specific library/label
was named, and VOL(*MOUNTED) was specified. This has been fixed.
- ENDJOBWOL
End Job With Object Locks has been fixed to run in batch as well
as interactive environments.
- SNDINTMSG
The Send Interactive Jobs a Message tool was failing if the caller
did not have explicit authority to read the application value used
to control its use. This application value should be able to be
read by the tool for any user authorized to the tool. The
authority issue with a helper program has been fixed.
- RMVSUPGRP
Remove Supplemental Group allows the removing of a supplemental
group profile from one or more user profiles. This command was
fixed to issue better completion messages.
- RTVSYSPTN
Retrieve System Partition returns information about the partitions
on a system and the current partition. RTVSYSPTN was returning the
opposite Capacity Capped value than it should. The tool was
changed to return the correct value.
- SAVRSTJOBQ
The Save and Restore Job Queue tool supports two commands which
support the save and restore of a job queue. CVTJOBQ2 creates an
outfile of information about the jobs on a job queue, then
SBMJOBQ2 command is used to read the outfile and perform a SBMJOB
for each job found in the outfile. The outfile name was not being
set correctly when SBMJOBQ2(*OUTFILE) was specified. This has been
corrected.
- SCNSPLF
Scan Spool File scans a spool file for a string and returns a
count of how many strings were found. A fix was added so scan
arguments over 10 characters would be found correctly.
- SNDTCPOUTQ
The Send TCP Output Queue tool would fail in very rare
circumstances due to a time out waiting for a port to become
available in the SNDTCPSPLF tool. Retry logic has been added to
minimize this possibility even further and, if the port does not
become available, an informational message is logged rather than
the tool failing.
Incompatibilities
- CHGOWNOBJ
The new ESCAPE keyword on CHGOWNOBJ defaults to *YES. Any programs
using CHGOWNOBJ with a from user or to user beginning with a Q
will fail with a TAA9891 exception. You can use ESCAPE(*NO) to
suppress this exception.
- CVTOBJLCK
The outfile for CVTOBJLCK has been modified to add a new field
identifying the current user to the end of the record format.
Outfiles from previous versions of the tool will need to be
deleted. The tool will re-create these on first use.
2019-08-15 (R70)
Refresh 70 (August 15, 2019) is for IBM i 7.2, 7.3, and 7.4.
No further refreshes will be made for IBM i 7.1. However, fixes to 7.1
tools will continue to be supplied on an "as needed" basis until April
30, 2021.
New Tools
- CMPENVVAR
The new Compare Environment Variables command allows a comparison
of environment variables between two systems or two versions
converted from the same system. A listing is printed noting the
differences between the two ENVVAR files being compared.
- CVTENVVAR
The new Convert Environment Variables command converts job and
system environment variables to an outfile. The outfile can be
used to verify current environment variable settings, or to
compare ENVVAR settings overtime to ensure they remain consistent
on the system.
Enhancements
- Support for IBM i 7.4
A new version of the tools has been created to install and run on
IBM i 7.4. If you upgrade your system to IBM i 7.4 you will have
60 days in which to upgrade the tools to match the operating
system. The 7.3 and prior versions of the tools are not supported
on IBM i 7.4 so you are encouraged to upgrade promptly.
- Support for multiple licenses
The tools can now support multiple licenses on a single system.
This makes it much easier to manage cases where the system image
must be switched or replicated to a system with a different serial
number. This would include cases for capacity backup (CBU),
disaster recovery (DR), high availability (HA), or live partition
mobility (LPM).
Supplemental licenses can be installed in addition to the base
license for a system. The base license is created either during
install or with CHGTAAKEY. Its serial number must match the system
at that time. Supplemental licenses are installed on that same
system and can reference other serial numbers. If a license check
fails for the base license, the supplemental licenses are checked.
The base license resides in the TAATOOL/TAALICENSE data area.
There can be up to 9 supplemental licenses in TAATOOL named
TAALIC_001 through TAALIC_009. You create a supplemental license
using the CHGTAAKEY command as follows:
CHGTAAKEY KEY() LICNBR(1)
This creates a supplemental license in TAALIC_001.
When the additional system is used, the base license and
supplemental licenses are available since they've been replicated
or switched. The base license check will fail, but the
supplemental license check will succeed. This will be entirely
transparent to you.
- Support for handling * and ? in IFS names
The Root and QOpenSys file systems in IFS can have files and
directories that have the * and ? characters in the names. Various
IFS command would come across these while scanning the directory
structure and treat these as pattern names. Several commands have
been updated to handle these names properly - most notably DLTIFS.
The commands now also allow for quoting arguments in the same
manner as WRKLNK. Thus, if you don't want a pattern match you have
to quote the designated string twice on the command line. For
example, suppose you have the following files in your home
directory:
aaa.txt
abc.txt
abc*.txt
abc?.txt
abc'.txt
Let's assume the current directory is your home directory.
The following command lists four files.
WRKLNK 'abc*.txt'
But this command only lists one file.
WRKLNK '''abc*.txt'''
Thus, the following command would delete the four files that begin
with abc.
DLTIFS OBJ('.') OBJNAM('abc*.txt')
However, as expected, this command would delete only abc*.txt.
DLTIFS OBJ('.') OBJNAM('''abc*.txt''')
- CHKIFSDMG
Check IFS Damage works by saving the IFS objects to a temporary
save file. It now provides diagnostic information in the job log
that shows the save file size calculation in case of a CRTSAVF
failure.
- CPYUSRPRF2
Copy User Profile 2 is an option on the SECOFR2 menu. It allows an
"assistant security officer" the ability to establish a user
profile by copying an existing one and initializing its password
with INZPWD. CPYUSRPRF2 is now disabled if *ALLCRTCHG is specified
in the QPWDRULES system value since the intent is to give the user
a relatively easy password that will be immediately changed.
- CVTQRYSTMT
Convert Query Statement was enhanced to allow it to be used in
batch.
- CVTSBSD
The Convert Subsystem Description tool was enhanced to include the
last used date for the job queue in the SBSJBQENT outfile that is
produced.
- CVTSYSVAL
Convert System Values has been enhanced to fully capture all the
system values. Prior to this refresh some long system values were
not being fully captured.
- DSAOLDPRF
We added a parameter to the DSAOLDPRF command that allows you to
select a method for disabling old profiles. The *CHGUSRPF default
method will disable any profile that meets the aging criteria
including QSECOFR. The *DSAUSRPRF method will use a DSAUSRPRF
command and can be more selective. It will never disable QSECOFR
and other profiles can be protected as well. See the documentation
for DSAUSRPRF for details.
- DSPSBMJOB
Display Submitted Jobs received several enhancements.
1. Job numbers can roll over. Jobs are now sorted by their entry
date and time, not by job number so job number rollover no
longer prevents toggling between ascending and descending
order.
2. Option 8 now shows an appropriate message if the job no longer
exists in the system.
3. Displaying with no jobs now allows F5=Refresh and
F6=Ascending/Descending.
4. A misbehaving SPLFPGM will no longer terminate the command,
but will halt processing of the list.
5. DSPSBMJOB now shows batch immediate jobs as submitted jobs.
These jobs are usually started by the system to carry out
asynchronous tasks for long running APIs. WRKSBMJOB does show
these.
- DSPSUMJOBQ
The Display Summary of Job Queue command was enhanced by adding a
sequence parameter to sort the outfile by ascending or descending
order.
- EXCCMD
The Execute Commands command can print a list of commands that
were executed from a source file. This listing would truncate some
lines if they were too long. The tool now prints a longer line
along with its change date.
- GENRANPWD2
The Generate Random Password 2 tool has been enhanced so that it
now respects all the settings for QPWDRULES that could apply to
generation without knowing the password history.
The following QPWDRULES are now supported:
*PWDSYSVAL
*MAXLENnnn *MINLENnnn
*REQANY3 *MIXCASEn
*CHRLMTAJC *CHRLMTREP
*LTRMIN *DGTMIN *SPCCHRMIN
*LTRMAX *DGTMAX *SPCCHRMAX
*LTRLMTAJC *DGTLMTAJC *SPCCHRLMTAJC
*LTRLMTFST *DGTLMTFST *SPCCHRLMTFST
*LTRLMTLST *DGTLMTLST *SPCCLHRMTLST
If QPWDRULES is set to *PWDSYSVAL then the following
system password rules are supported:
QPWDMAXLEN - like *MAXLENnnn
QPWDMINLEN - like *MINLENnnn
QPWDLMTREP - like *CHRLMTAJC or *CHRLMTREP
QPWDRQDDGT - like *DGTMINn (n is 0 or 1)
QPWDLMTAJC - like *DGTLMTAJC
QPWDLMTCHR - no corresponding rule in QPWDRULES
This is only used if the password level is 0 or 1
- PRTJRNRCV
The Print Journal Receivers command has been enhanced by adding
two fields to it's output - the first sequence number and volume
ID. This allows you to identify which media volume (usually tape)
on which the journal receiver is stored.
- QRYUSE
The Convert Query Statement command of the QRYUSE tool was
enhanced to allow the tool to run in all environments, including
batch.
- RPLSYSVAL
The Replace System Value tool has been enhanced to be able to set
the QSSLCSL value if QSSLCSLCTL is set to *USRDFN. QSSLCSL was
being skipped and had to be manually set.
Also the exception report produced by RPLSYSVAL now has all of the
message text associated with any errors that might be encountered
when doing the CHGSYSVAL.
- RTVDBR
The Retrieve Database Relations was enhanced to show the
additional view of dependencies of a logical file.
Fixes
- APYUSRCHG
Apply User Journal Changes overrides a printer file to change the
name of the report to the name of the file whose changes were
being applied. This was failing if changes were being applied to
*ALL files. The override in this case now assigns APYUSRCHG to the
name of the report.
- CHGOBJAUT
The Change Object Authorization would occasionally fail when used
by the CVTWRKACT tool. This was due to an undocumented lock on the
output file being held by a system thread in CRTDUPOBJ. The
workaround is to wait on a lock for the object held by that thread
and proceed when that lock is acquired.
- CPYSPLFIFS
The Copy Spooled File to IFS would fail when creating a PDF when
the overflow line of the spooled file was less than 60. This has
been corrected.
- CVTJRNA
The Convert Journal Attributes tool is used by several other
tools. In very rare circumstances the tool would fail if the files
being journaled were deleted while it was running. Monitors have
been added to check for this condition.
- CVTJOBACG3
The tool was not behaving well for ENDJOB *CNTRLD if accounting
entries were being added on a frequent basis. The check for the
*CTRLD end is now being made more frequently.
- CVTLIBLCK
The Convert Library Locks tool would fail if an override existed
for the file TAATOBJDP - the model file for the output from the
command. This has been fixed.
- CVTMSGQ
The Convert Message Queue tool could fail in rare circumstances
with an index out of range due to extremely long messages in the
message queue.
- DSPMSGQINQ
The Display Message Queue Inquiries command would sometimes miss
an inquiry message if those messages were present next to each
other without replies in the message queue. This has been fixed.
- DSPSBMJOB
In some was possible for Display Submitted Jobs to get a pointer
error if there are a large number of job entries on the system.
This has been fixed.
- ENDSBSJOB
The End Subsystem Jobs command was fixed to continue processing
when a job not found condition was encountered. This avoids
command exceptions due to system timing conflicts when jobs end
before the command completes.
- FNDCMD
The Find Command tool would give a date conversion error when the
command index file would exceed 183 days old. A parameter size was
fixed to correct this problem.
- INZPWD
The INZPWD and INZPWD2 commands will only use GENRANPWD2 if
QPWDRULES system value specifies *ALLCRTCHG. If it is not
specified then the passwords generated for users will be follow
simpler rules that might not conform to the password rules. This
is desirable for help desk use.
- MTNJRN
The Maintain Journal command would not delete journal receivers in
SAVED state if SAVINQMSG(*BYPASS) was specified and if the
receiver had no object saved date. This could happen if the
receivers had only been saved with GO SAVE 21 or SAVSYS. The
receivers in SAVED state will now be deleted if they meet the
attach or detach date qualfications for removal regardless of the
save date.
- MONMSGQ
The job submitted by SBMMONMSGQ would occasionally report on
messages that had blank message ids. These have been removed.
- RTVAUDMDLF
The IM type was missing as a valid type for the retrieve. This has
been corrected.
- RTVSYSSTS
The Retrieve System Status command changed to correctly retrieve
the LPAR current available processor for the CURPRCCAP parameter.
- VALDBF
The Validate Database File command has been changed to bypass null
capable files, or files whose record length exceeds 4000. This
improves VALMNYDBF, which would throw errors when these conditions
were encountered. Now the files are bypassed, and a message is
issued.
Incompatibilities
- Commands that refer to previous releases (7.4 only)
All save commands, most compile commands, and commands that use
*PRV compiler support have had their TGTRLS parameters updated for
7.4. While technically incompatible with previous release this is
consistent with 7.4 system changes. The following commands have
been affected: CHKTGTRLS, CMPOUTFILE, CRTBNDCL2, CRTBNDRPG2,
CRTSFLPGM, CRTSFLPGM2, CRTTGTRLS, RPLGENPGM, RPLOBJ, RPLMOD,
RPLPGM, RPLSFLPGM, SAVALLACT, SAVCHGACT, SAVJRNACT, SAVLIBIFS,
SAVOBJIFS, SAVEONELIB, SAVOWNOBJ, SAVRCVL, SAVSNDL, SAVSNDM,
SAVSRCF, SBMSAVRCVL, SBMSAVSNDL, SNDOBJMAIL.
2018-10-15 (R69)
Refresh 69 (October 15, 2018) is for IBM i 7.2 and 7.3.
No further refreshes will be made for IBM i 7.1. However, fixes to 7.1
tools will continue to be supplied on an "as needed" basis until April
30, 2021.
New Tools
- ADDDSTLE2
Add Distribution List Entry 2 is a new tool to assist with adding
users to the same distribution lists to which another user
belongs. If the user is already on one of the identified lists, no
action is taken.
- FNDMSGID
Find Message ID is a new tool which will find the message file(s)
that hold a message ID. This is very useful when handling jobs
which list a message id with and unknown message file. The product
issuing the message can often be identified this way.
- SCNALLDSTL
Scan All Distribution Lists is a new tool to scan all distribution
lists for a particular User ID. An output file is created listing
all the dist lists in which the User ID was found.
Enhancements
- CVTIFSAUT
Performance of CVTIFSAUT has been improved by streamlining the
connection between it and the CVTIFSEAUT tool.
Fixes
- CVTJOB
The CVTJOB command would occasionally get decimal data errors when
dealing with a very large number of jobs. The module using the
QUSLJOB API has been rewritten to avoid this problem.
- CVTLIBOBJA
The Convert Library Object Authorities command would fail when
LIB(*ALL) was requested. The tool has been fixed to handle the
*ALL parameter.
- CVTMSGQ
The Convert Message Queue tool could fail in rare circumstances
with an index out of range. This has been fixed.
- DSPAUDLOG2
The Display Audit Log 2 display was not updating the minutes field
of the TIME column properly. This has been fixed.
- DSPJOBSCDC
The Display Job Schedule Calendar tool was showing jobs scheduled
starting tomorrow. The tool was changed changed to display jobs
that are scheduled to run from the system job scheduler for the
next 7 days, starting today.
- DSPJOBSCDE
The Display Job Schedule Entry tool was always displaying jobs in
scheduled order, even when SEQ(*JOB) was requested. SEQ(*JOB) now
displays in job name order.
- DSPSBMJOB
The Display Submitted Jobs tool was not displaying the jobs that
were submitted by the current user on behalf of another user. For
example, if SBMJOB CMD(...) USER(OTHER) was used then that job was
not appearing on the DSPSBMJOB display. In addition, jobs
belonging to the current user, but not submitted by the current
user were being displayed. Both of these problems have been fixed.
DSPSBMJOB now functions as documented and behaves similarly to
WRKSBMJOB.
- DSPSBSJOBQ / WRKSBSJOBQ
The DSPSBSJOBQ / WRKSBSJOBQ display output was not refreshing
correctly. The job number in the header was not updating, and once
a job queue had all completed jobs, the queue did not list
*Nojobs*. Both these problems have been corrected.
- EDTDTAARA
The Edit Data Area tool will acquire an exclusive lock on the data
area being edited. The tool presents a warning if you attempted to
edit a character data area containing data with code points below
x'40'. Canceling this warning failed to release this lock. This
has been fixed.
- GENRANPWD2
The Generate Random Password 2 tool was throwing an error when
PWDLVL was set to 0 or 1. GENRANPWD2 was generating passwords
which included lowercase characters, which is not supported with
PWDLVL 0 or 1, causing INZPWD2 and INZPWD to fail when requested
to generate a random password. This has now been corrected in the
GENRANPWD2 tool.
- PRTREVERSE
The Print Reverse tool was cutting off the last line of the last
page when reverse printing a spool file. This has been corrected.
- RTVIFSEAUT
The Retrieve IFS Entry Authority tool uses system APIs that cannot
be run if the job is multithreaded. Some tools, such as SNDSPLPDF,
use APIs that now spin off threads in the current job. RTVIFSEAUT
will now wait for those threads to finish instead of failing with
an exception when used in those tools.
- RTVSBSBCH
The Retrieve Subsystem Batch Status tool would fail if the
subsystem description for the named active subsystem could not be
found in the library list. A fix was made so that the library of
the active subsystems is correctly determined. In addition, the
RTVSBSBCH command documentation indicated that *ALL was valid. It
is valid on PRTSBSBCH, but not on RTVSBSBCH. The documentation has
been corrected.
- SNDSPLPDF
The Send Spool as a PDF tool documentation was updated to indicate
that both PASE and Transform Services are required to run this
tool.
- SPLSTO
The Print Spool Store (PRTSPLSTO) command in the Spool Store tool
(re)prints a stored spooled file. If that spooled file was created
with an output queue specified as *DEV, *JOB, or *SAME then the
output queue must be determined at run time. This is now done
properly.
- TAATOOL/TAAARCAC2 data area locked during install of the tools
After an IBM i release upgrade the data area TAAARCAC2 in TAATOOL
could be locked by the TAAINQMSG2 job. The install process for the
tools now ends this job so that the TAATOOL library can be cleared
and refreshed.
Incompatibilities
There are no known incompatibilities in this refresh.
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