Why would you even waste your time with these idiots, Mark ? They have screwed themselves into the ground.
You can bet your boots the same team of management clowns who brought this situation about are still in control. So I would pitch them a complete upgrade to the latest software and hardware, cost it all out and tell them this is what you will have to pay to get yourselves out of this hole. Any technical fix is only going to be temporary and will only prolong the situation, doing nothing to solve the basic problem. You could maybe find a more polite way of putting it. On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 8:44 AM, John McKown <john.archie.mck...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 8:05 AM, PINION, RICHARD W. < > rpin...@firsttennessee.com> wrote: > > > So you are saying I can't IPL OS/360 on our z13 :) > > > > Not without an "RPQ". I remember back in the 1980s when Braniff Airways > (now defunct) was running OS/MVT on a 3033. It only ran because IBM wrote > special patches to allow it. These patches were only available via an "RPQ" > (Request for Price Quotation?). > > Given that all the current IBMZ machines are basically "millicoded", I can > imagine that it is _theoretically_ possible to have an a number of MCL > variants which could implement almost any level of architecture. Of course, > if marketing tried this, I would guess that they would be subject to a > "dark ops" strike from the hardware engineers. > > > -- > I have a theory that it's impossible to prove anything, but I can't prove > it. > > Maranatha! <>< > John McKown > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
