Sometimes it's difficult to get IBM to acknowledge that the whole world is not North America and the North America is not the whole world.
Given what I heard at SHARE it is obvious that certain departments are full steam ahead on pushing Shopzseries. They would like the entire z/OS customer base to download products and maintenance via this method. A fairly solid concept. Sadly other parts of IBM appear to have insisted that this facility be available to only the 'chosen few' - that is if you happen to reside in one of the 'chosen countries'. Oh well - perhaps next year - or maybe not!! Jim s -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Phil Payne Sent: 30 December 2005 03:08 To: [email protected] Subject: Legality of Hercules was (fwd) Hercules 3.03 announcement > I would challenge IBM to put on the Internet and publiclly make available a bunch of MVS (virtual machines under VM) Thus effectively allow MVS at home for everyone desiring to develop MVS open-source. This will spread also MVS skills which is in IBM interest. I suggested this to senior IBMers on several occasions - which may, indeed, be the reason they haven't done it. But given the resources at their disposal (and without making any comments on the current inventory levels of returned z900s) it would be easy for IBM to put up a well.configured z900 doing precisely this. I think there would be marketing capital in it, too. "See, we've given every keyboard jockey who can get to a phone unlimited access to MVS - and none of them have broken it yet." Unless, of course, it can be broken. It's incredibly difficult to get concepts like this through at IBM because at every turn you have to make a business case to a manager whose incentive program is different to the manager that let you get to him. -- Phil Payne http://www.isham-research.co.uk +44 7833 654 800 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
