On Jul 28, 2005, at 3:26 AM, Dave Cartwright wrote:
On Thu, 28 Jul 2005 10:10:12 +0200, R.S.
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
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Me too Radoslaw. Actually I once did that, "maintaining" an out-of
service
MVS/XA system that was in another country. It depends what you mean
by "support". I understand that IBM means they will not fix new
problems,
but they have a database
(https://techsupport.services.ibm.com/server/zseries.srchBroker)
of known bugs, some of them with fixes. To fix most bugs you don't need
access to the source code, someone in IBM who has that will probably
have
fixed it by now anyway. MVS releases are normally pretty well debugged
by
the time the go Out of Service. It's a calculated risk, but if you are
not
doing anything dramatically new and (b)leading edge you can run OoS
systems
quite happily for years. The downside is the angst when you come to
upgrade
and over the years most committed MVS sites have found it's better to
do
incremental upgrades within supported releases than go for Big Bangs.
If
you're not committed you may have another view.
Dave
Dave,
While I agree with you (up to a point) there are certain exceptions to
the above rule. A major exception was the Y2K event.
Ed
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