Our very wonderful and charming vm admin lady also demured at having the later version as our default in case it broke IBM-standard tools. She was persuaded though to allow me to put it up on a common disk and all who want it use PICKPIPE to install it as their own default. It's been like this for some years now without even a single incident.
i ------ Original Message ------ Received: 09:55 AM COT, 06/28/2010 From: Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Current PIPELINES Runtime Library > 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
