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Updated SETTING_PATH.md for changes to affect all users

Open brandonp42 opened this issue 11 months ago • 4 comments

This is just a minor update to the troubleshooting/SETTING_PATH.md file. On recent operating system releases the /QOpenSys/etc/profile should not be modified directly - local customizations should be in profile.local.

Also added instructions to adjust the system environment variable PASE_PATH as an alternative so that programs called directly via QP2SHELL will be affected.

Thanks! Brandon

brandonp42 avatar Jan 28 '25 22:01 brandonp42

FYI in my testing when I SSH to the IBM i, it doesn't seem to use the PASE_PATH system variable and you still want/need to adjust via the /QOpenSys/etc/profile.local or user profile files. I'd be interested to know if other people see the same behaviour or not.

brandonp42 avatar Jan 29 '25 00:01 brandonp42

Thank you for the suggestions @kadler!

brandonp42 avatar Jan 29 '25 16:01 brandonp42

We may want to add a note that profile.local doesn't work unless you are on certain releases and PTF levels, but I don't have that information available at the moment.

kadler avatar Jan 29 '25 17:01 kadler

I'll update the instructions more this weekend to explain older vs newer releases. I don't know what the cutoff is either but I can give instructions on what to look for to decide what to do.

brandonp42 avatar Jan 31 '25 14:01 brandonp42