If it is a customer support issue, shouldn't you have both versions available so that you can match those that are not at the base level?
Regards, Richard Schuh > -----Original Message----- > From: CMSTSO Pipelines Discussion List > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin > Sent: Monday, June 28, 2010 7:45 AM > 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 >
