On Tue, 8 Sep 2009 11:35:28 -0700, Edward Jaffe <[email protected]> wrote:
>George Rodriguez wrote: >> The truth is that we just got off of v1.4... Not because of the system >> work that was required, but because of the testing that needed to be >> done by application support. There was a great deal of changes that were >> needed to go to v1.7 and to eliminate a double billing situation with 2 >> versions of CICS (v1.3 and v3.1). Now that we are done, the plan is to >> go to v1.9 and in a couple of years go to v1.10 or v1.11 (depending on >> how stable it is). >> > >I'm just concerned that you're spending valuable time upgrading from an >unsupported release to a release that becomes unsupported exactly three >weeks from tomorrow... > >See http://www.ibm.com/systems/z/os/zos/support/zos_eos_dates.html > He still has another year. The problem we had in the past - when we installed every other release - was that we would end up finishing our roll outs close to the EOS date and sometimes going past if for some LPARs if there was an issue that delayed migration. Knowing that it can take a year for installation, testing and migration for some shops (and I think IBM knows this), I really wish IBM would revise the 3 year EOS policy to perhaps 3.5 years. Of course if IBM does that, someone else will want 4 years, but as it stands now if the policy is to install every other release you're always pushing towards that EOS date. Even if you have an "install every release" policy or intention to do so, something "big" like a data center move or consolidation often forces you to skip a release. Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group - ZFUS G-ITO mailto:[email protected] z/OS Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ Mark's MVS Utilities: http://home.flash.net/~mzelden/mvsutil.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
