In an attempt to steer this to a brainstorming thing...

What are the components of zOSMF, and what are the warts people have noticed?
Apart from the UI or that a UI itself exists.

Websphere Liberty,... what else?
What parts are tunable, what capabilities are needed, etc?


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On Saturday, July 1st, 2023 at 2:38 AM, Tom Marchant 
<0000000a2a8c2020-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote:


> I don't see why, and that wouldn't be consistent with what they have done in 
> the past.
> Some examples:
> z/OS 2.1 was available September 2013. It was not supported on a z990 or a 
> Z890. Support for those were dropped in 2014 and 2016
> z/OS 2.2 was available in 2015. It was not supported on a z9. z9 EC was 
> supported until 2017. z9 BC was supported until 2019.
> z/OS 2.3 was available in 2017. It was not supported on a z196 (support 
> dropped 2021) or z114 (supported until 2022).
> z/OS 2.5 was available in 2021. It was not supported on a zEC12 or a zBC12. 
> AFAIK, support for those have not yet been dropped.
> 
> I'm not sure, but I think that what IBM has done is to support a level of 
> hardware until the last release of z/OS that is supported on that machine is 
> off support, or at least withdrawn from marketing. Not to support a new 
> release of the operating system on all processors that are currently 
> supported at GA.
> 
> --
> Tom Marchant
> 
> On Fri, 30 Jun 2023 01:01:21 -0500, Brian Westerman 
> brian_wester...@syzygyinc.com wrote:
> 
> > So is IBM definitely dropping support for the z13s BEFORE z/OS 3.1 is 
> > officially out? If not, then it should be supported by z/OS 3.1. . . .
> 
> 
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