Sean Gleann wrote:

>I have a little birdy tweeting in my ear to the effect that "z/OS 2.2 is going 
>to be the last version of z/OS".

Tweet. tweet. tweet. Another April 1 joke. Unless IBM is planning to have yet 
another new name for their 'premier operating system'.


>Has anyone else heard anything along those lines?

Yes, sort of. When I started around 1989, "they" told me MVS/XA and MVS/ESA are 
going to die. Please don't cry.

Now at z/OS v2.1, I am still waiting for the funeral.

Oh, don't forget - there is no technology, hardware and software, available to 
_fully_ replace MVS, OS/390 and z/OS.

I said 'fully' because you can perhaps migrate 'off the mainframe', but then on 
a smaller scale.

I still miss OS/2. That thing was a marvel, but big blue's marketing was not a 
marvel...

Groete / Greetings
Elardus Engelbrecht

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