On Jun 28, 2010, at 08:33, A. Harry Williams wrote: > On Fri, 25 Jun 2010 09:18:49 -0400 Hughes, Jim said: >> Is there a downside to replacing the PIPELINES distributed with Z/VM 5.4 >> with the current PIPELINES Runtime Library from Marist? > > Your programmers may become more productive, and demand that you keep up with > the current version? You boss may wonder where all this free time to work on > the project backlog comes from? > Why does the "distributed" version lag so far behind the "Library" version? Is it IBM's understandable posture against contributed code for IP and liability reasons?
And our admins demur at installing the Library, partly because we need to keep our test bed pristine to match the lowest level customers. -- gil
