On 7/21/2018 8:42 PM, Ed Jaffe wrote:
Are you receiving the "IBM My notifications - IBM Z" email? Have you
seen how many New Function APARs are being delivered every week? The
notification I received just last week listed OA54872, OA55767,
OA54825, OA54559, and OA54826. Often the list is much longer.
The advent of OS/390 and it's original 6-month release cycle was
intended to be the answer to the "dreaded" SPE -- a maintenance
nightmare that inconvenienced enough customers to cause a minor revolt
and a major change in how IBM packaged, tested, and delivered the
operating system. Yet now, with mainframe-related manpower shortages
mandating a no-less-than-two-year z/OS release cycle, SPEs are fast
becoming the new normal.
It's a brave new world...
I just received this week's "IBM My Notifications - IBM Z" email and it
contains two more new function APARs: OA55472 and PI91973. The previous
week had five (listed above) and the prior week had four: PI99282,
OA55109, OA54824, and OA55108. That's eleven SPEs in three weeks. A
small sample, for sure, but extrapolating gives me nearly 200 SPEs for
the year. And, IBM's "continuous delivery" strategy has yet to be fully
rolled out, so expect that number to rise over time...
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Edward E. Jaffe
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