On Apr 11, 2006, at 10:29 AM, Eric Bielefeld wrote:
Ed,
Why do you keep saying TSO is dead. IBM hasn't announced any
replacement. Most programmers, sysprogs, and operators use TSO every
day in their work. If TSO is dead, what's going to replace it?
Eric,
This has been discussed here on the list (mostly by me) for a while.
The group seems to think moribund might be a better term though.
There has been nothing official by IBM, BTW.
The gist of it seems to be TSO has so many obscure control blocks and
apparently is not well documented as to who read/writes to which
control blocks IBM has given up trying to write new code or fix old
code. There are some exceptions of course but look at it this way
since REXX came out (10+ years ago) there has been no large TSO
products released. IBM indicated at GUIDE quite some time ago that no
large scale TSO development is happening. We had requested a
replacement or at least a better TSO.
There have been small items but nothing large. So instead of dead
maybe moribund is better, you make up your own mind.
Ed
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