Ron MacRae writes: >I've got a REXX exec that sets up an IPCS environment for z/OS levels >other than my current release.... With this REXX exec I can select a >version of IPCS modules/panels/.... for every release of z/OS from 2.10 >up to 1.13.
Bearing in mind that I do not speak for IBM, I'd like to caution you on something here. It's one critically important distinction between what's technically possible and what's actually permissible, at least financially speaking. The "2.10" you mention is not z/OS, it's OS/390 (V2R10). That's a different product, also licensed. As background, when IBM introduced z/OS almost 12 years ago IBM also introduced sub-capacity licensing for z/OS and for practically all IBM software products for z/OS, including CICS, IMS, DB2, MQ, and many others. However, there are a very few prerequisites that customers are required to implement before enjoying sub-capacity licensing. One highly relevant and very well publicized requirement is that you must stop running all OS/390 on your machine(s). That was (and is) part of the deal. OK, by now you see the potential problem. If you're running OS/390 V2R10's IPCS, you haven't stopped running OS/390 on your machine. Which means you wouldn't be eligible for sub-capacity licensing. Be very, very careful here, folks. There are only a few simple rules. Follow them, please. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Timothy Sipples Resident Enterprise Architect (Based in Singapore) E-Mail: [email protected] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
