Starting a new thread: One of the benefits of this change is supposed to allow shops to focus more on business growth. I do see that as a potential benefit. I can also see it saving money for some of the larger shops that basically spend a year ordering, installing and rolling out a new version - then doing it again the next year. On the negative side, that could also translate to some job cuts if management thinks less work has to be done now.
I'm interested in some vendor perspective. Do you see this as a good thing? How much of your development resources are taken up just making changes related to a new OS version or verifying your software functions with a new OS version? Will this allow you to focus more on product enhancements instead of just keeping up with z/OS changes. Do you plan to come out with new releases less often? For example, many of the CA products have changed version or release numbers pretty much in step with new z/OS releases. Obviously some products integrate much more closely with z/OS and internal OS changes than others, so I know the answer is "it depends". So I guess I would be more interested in hearing from those vendors that support software that typically does required changes or more extensive testing and verification to support z/OS changes. Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS mailto:[email protected] Mark's MVS Utilities: http://www.mzelden.com/mvsutil.html Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
