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OS/400 · 2001

OS/400 V5R1 out of support

Signed objects, passwords up to 128 characters and free-form RPG calculations.

Announced
23 April 2001
Available from
25 May 2001
End of marketing
21 November 2003
End of standard support
30 September 2005

Standard support

What it brought

  • Digital signing of objects (programs, service programs, modules, save files) and signature checking; every OS/400 object ships signed
  • The QPWDLVL system value: at levels 2 and 3 user profile passwords can be 1 to 128 characters long; it ships at 0
  • RPG: free-form calculation specifications (/FREE), qualified names in data structures, ELSEIF and /INCLUDE
  • RPG: EXTFILE and EXTMBR to choose which file to open, and easier calls to Java
  • Journaling of IFS stream files and directories, and user-defined file systems mountable on an independent ASP
  • The LAN-based Operations Console, and device profiles for the service tools
  • NetServer with its own setup wizard

What is gone

Products and functions that IBM lists as not supported on this release, on its upgrade planning page.

  • Support for the Start and End Performance Monitor commands

Sources

Dates checked against the IBM life cycle table on .