> -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Assembler List [mailto:ASSEMBLER- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Steve Comstock > Sent: Sunday, April 14, 2013 6:23 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Length question > > On 4/14/2013 4:00 AM, EXT-Schwarz, Barry wrote: > > Up until 18 months ago, we had a billion dollar, as in giga, customer > > runningon MP2003s using OS/390 1.3. If we had told them that they > > would have to upgrade > to a current operating system based on IBM's support schedule along > with the corresponding hardware upgrade, we would never have made that > sale in 1999 nor been gainfully employed providing support for the past > decade and a half. > > So what happened 18 months ago?
After years of being subjected to FUD by various vendors, they upgraded to what was current during negotiations, z10s and z/OS 1.11. Neither is currently marketed and at least one is out of support. And we are not about to tell them they should upgrade either. At least not until there is a business case for doing so, which in this customer's case is very unlikely.
