(Pardon if this is not the right forum.) Folks,
We're experiencing broken code due to a minor incompatibility after upgrading to AIX V6. The code below has been working for more than 15 years (based on timestamp) before the recent upgrade. dd if=$infile of=$outfile conv=block,ebcdic cbs=80 The conv option used to accept block and ebcdic values specified together. We're now getting a "dd: bad arg ebcdic" error message. Man dd is saying these two values are now incompatible. My questions are: - Is it normal that customers experience broken code whenever there is an AIX upgrade? - Is this incompatibility change present only in AIX V6, or is it generic/global meaning also present in the latest distributions of Linux and other -ix flavors? I've done a few MVS and VSE upgrades but have never received a single complaint from applications people of a broken code due to upward/downward incompatibility. Must have been lucky until now. :D Thanks in advance! Virgilio B Calimlim ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
