MQ usability

[Yann E. MORIN]

Hello All!

On Monday 10 August 2009 20:24:07 Bryan O'Sullivan wrote:
> If qseries had a mode of displaying which patches were applied and which
> not, I'd agree that qnext, qprev, and qtop could go (and in fact qapplied,
> too).

For me, qseries highlights the applied patches, and dim the unaplied ones.
It's thus easy, as a human, to know what's the current queue status is.
But that it's not easily scriptable, though.

A usefull output like the following would be both human- and machine-readable:

+ patch1        patch1 is applied
! patch2        patch2 is guarded, so not applied
> patch3        patch2 is current patch
- patch4        patch4 is not applied
- patch5        patch5 is not applied (print guarded state?)

FWIW...

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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