on 6/2/05 12:02 PM, Howard Brazee at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 2-Jun-2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ed Gould) wrote: > >> When IBM semi announced that TSO was dead the first question was what was >> the replacement? We did not get an answer or even a hint. One of my IBM >> sources said they were working on a *COMPLETE* replacement but did not >> elaborate. > > The trouble is, IBM has to be very careful in what it implies. What happens > if its bigwigs decide internally that, say MVS should no longer be developed > because new customers should go to other platforms that IBM is working on? > If > it they decided that, they certainly would not want to let us know until they > were ready for our response. > > Well, replacing TSO might have similar consequences on a smaller scale. > Companies that are thinking about their next applications upgrade are biased > to > use platforms that they are familiar with that cost less to train users on. > If they hear that TSO is going away, they see "We'll have to train people > anyway, it doesn't matter what platform we go to". So IBM is better off if > we > don't hear that TSO is going away - at least until their salesmen have > something > better to show us. >
Howard, I agree with you. Somehow I would expect IBM to come up with a similar product but will act/feel like the old TSO we all know (and love/hate). From what little feedback that was given us IBM is scared about how TSO has grown over the years (This bit for this and that bit for that). Probably the entire structure is so poorly documented now that no one can really touch it. Mind you this could let IBM to take the "best " parts and move them to the replacement and leave the old stuff behind. IKJDAIR was mentioned as a nightmare. As to Bob Shannons comments, so its stabalized.. that pretty much means that their should be a replacement is in the wings (to me). VSPC at one time was thought to be a TSO killer, but it was pretty apparant (to me) it was dead on arrival. Why not get SHARE board to ask? That will let everyone know what the situation really is (assuming IBM will let the question be asked or for that matter even answered. Ed ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
