Barry Schwarz wrote:
The last time I checked, software doesn't wear out. The features of 2.10 that are used in my shop work fine. Why should I care if one I don't use is broken and won't be fixed? Why should I spend the resources (not just money but time and effort but time and effort that could also be better spent) for some upgrade for which there is no business.
On the contrary. Software *does* wear out as expectations increase over time. For example, someone walks into your office and says, "I need to initiate an ftp transfer between two servers. Does your ftp client support proxy (third-party) transfers?" OS/390? No. z/OS? Yes. If the answer is "No", that someone find a Windows or Linux ftp client that supports proxy transfer and -- the next thing you know -- that function has moved from the mainframe.
A new version every six months is not something IBM should be proud of. It's the same marketing mentality that causes grocery stores to put the banana racks in the middle of the cereal aisle, completely destroying the traffic pattern.
New z/OS releases appear annually -- once per year. New z/OS versions appear much less frequently than that. The seventh release of z/OS -- due in September -- is still version 1.
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