Ted MacNEIL wrote:
It's bad because IBM has made a major change that you may not understand, but, for a fee, they will help you 'fix' it.
IBM is a big company with many different departments. IBM Global Services is a consultancy/outsourcer. If you don't have the expertise in-house to maintain/upgrade your systems, you can turn to them for help.
Once again, the JES2 developers in Poughkeepsie made upward incompatible changes. Nothing new there. They do something similar every few years. Remember when checkpoint versions (in a data space) were first introduced? How about when BERTs were introduced to (effectively) extend JQEs without a cold start? When the command syntax changed, did you have to retrain your operators? It wasn't that long ago that job numbers moved to new/longer fields and all checkpoint element offsets were converted to checkpoint element indexes. I'm guessing these changes had an impact on user-written exists, mods, and other code. Why start complaining now?
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