John, Can't comment on VSE , we don't have any VSE customers, our customers are z/OS only. I not sure what ESL is, I assume it's a pricing plan from IBM for VSE, haven't worked VSE in yrs
Scott ford www.identityforge.com On Jun 16, 2012, at 9:59 AM, John Gilmore <[email protected]> wrote: > ISVs that have many VSE customers confront a special problem. If they > judge it morally and/or economically appropriate to continue to > support the ESL-trapped among these VSE customers they should do so by > providing two code paths. To do this is a trivial and inexpensive, > even in open code, as Tony Thigpen knows very well. > > I think that Edward Jaffe has this morning made the case for the use > of the new instructions about as well as it can be made; and I will > not therefore revisit it except to note that support for ARCH > (<level>)-driven multiple code paths, which can be packaged up into > reusable macros readily (and could even be introduced into the > structured-programming macro package) is the appropriate resolution > of any need to support very different hardware groups concurrently; a > much better one than the systematic use of LCD technology that Tony, > if I have understood his views correctly, is advocating. > > John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA
