On Apr 19, 2006, at 10:19 PM, Tom Schmidt wrote:
On Wed, 19 Apr 2006 21:26:31 -0500, Ed Gould wrote:
John,
Indeed there have been and like you said rejected. I am not sure
there was a reason for the rejection. If SHARE was doing their job
they should have sent it back requesting a reason, IMO.
I think a well written request with a parmlib option might get
somewhere though. I will stand by my original guess is that IBM does
have a sound reason they just don't want to say. It my open an
integrity loophole (example only and a guess ONLY). Still, it would
have been nice *IF* that was the case to say so and I do think the
matter would be dropped.
Ed,
I suspect that the reason for the rejected support was the fear
that they
would/could add an impediment to system growth (and an impediment to a
mainframe sale). If they provided a function for single-system
users that
would (or even if it was only feared to be a "could") cause issues
after
the single-system was upgraded to a sysplex that would NOT be
viewed as
a "good thing" (tm) by IBM or customer management. As a customer
that is
referred to as "a career limiting move"... IBM has a similar term.
IBM does not generally want to add a "feature" that is basically
broken as
designed (BAD). They do it sometimes but they really try hard to
avoid
it.
(I am fairly certain this topic has been discussed to death here
several
years ago.)
Tom,
You are correct of course *IF* that is the reason. My memory is iffy
in this matter and only recall IBM once explaining why one of the
items could not be done.
My memory is vague from SHARE as I think IBM did not explain as to
why the rejection. I know I came away from the session less than
satisfied from IBMs' response.
Maybe if someone has access to the SHARE requirements database there
could be a better cut and paste for the rejection reason.
Anyone?
Ed
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