Whats the difference between QUSRTOOL and the TAA Productivity Tools product?
There tends to be a lot of confusion over what is QUSRTOOL and what are the TAA Productivity Tools. This stems from the fact that the TAA Tools evolved from the QUSRTOOL library to become a product on their own. To get a better understanding of how the product initially came into existence and then developed over time, you can read about the History of QUSRTOOL/TAA Tools. Basically, QUSRTOOL was, and still is, an optional part of i5/OS that contains the source of small utilities and programming samples. The majority of those tools, (those prefixed TAA) were removed from QUSRTOOL after Version 3, Release 1 and became the TAA Productivity Tools. QUSRTOOL still exists, but it does not contain the TAA Tools. The TAA Productivity Tools product contains all the TAA Tools that existed in QUSRTOOL. Now, however, they come with object code, (not just source), help screens, they are Year 2000 safe, there are lots more additional tools, (over triple the original amount), and they also have teleph
