IIRC, IBM's traditional numbering scheme is: vv.rr.mm, where vv is the version counter starting at 1 rr is the release counter starting at 1 mm is the modification counter starting at 0 which may be omitted when zero.
Don > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Mark Zelden > Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2013 9:27 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: z/OS 2.1? > > On Tue, 5 Feb 2013 09:08:53 -0500, John Gilmore <[email protected]> > wrote: > > >Is this release in fact to be denominated 2.1? > > > >Doing so would break with IBM's tradition of beginning the numbering > >of new versions with 2.0 and the like (and it would be one more > >instance of dumbing down). > > > > No! IBM is following tradition for the OS. There was no dot zero > version of MVS/XA V2, ESA V3, ESA V4, OS/390 V1 nor z/OS V1. > > -- > 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
