Hi,
Would it not make sense to pass this serious bug to IBM, perhaps Mensys should seek a solution?
yes, along with the other things that have accumulated since the 90s.
Seriously, if someone passes that to IBM, they would refer you to the website stating the end-of-life and end-of-support announcement for OS/2.
Leaving aside the questions about whether the current JFS IFS driver we have is officially IBM software, there is the small but important fact that we are talking about a bug in the kernel. Of OS/2. Occurring when the JFS volume is => 16th drive letter... how many business customers of IBM are affected by this... what do you think? So there is no business case for them to fix it. Even if there was, who the hell would be doing this at IBM? I'm pretty sure that the last people who are able to do this are contractors that have already left years ago.
Let's face it: This will not change unless someone gets a soldering iron out and fiddles a workaround into the ridiculously undocumented nuts and bolts of OS/2 that "we" have source-code level access to.
Cheers,
Thomas