Gilbert Saint-Flour writes: >I'm trying to assess the availability of the OS/VS RPG II product >(5740-RG1). I know at least two z/OS sites that use it, so it's still >out there, but I was unable to locate the availability info on IBM.COM. >Can someone point me to the relevant documents? Thanks.
It's "announced and available," ready for ordering. Just checked on our internal system. Although you might be devastated to learn that IBM stopped taking orders for open reel and 4 mm tape cartridges for the product. :-) Yes, I've run into customers using it, too. Even have a possible new order here. OS/VS RPG II was announced on November 12, 1981. I was...very young then. :-) Really the only way to verify the above on ibm.com (that I know of) is to look at http://www.ibm.com/common/ssi (the announcement letters) and do an Advanced Search on the product number (5740-RG1), entire date range. You'll see a reference (only) to the original announcement (it's from long ago, so the original 1981 announcement letter didn't make it into the Web database), and you won't see anything withdrawn (except the aforementioned older media types). Since it's kind of obscure it never got its own ibm.com page, but it's still available. If somebody wants to report that it's missing from the Support Lifecycle web page ( http://www-306.ibm.com/software/info/supportlifecycle/list/o.html), that'd be great. We do have several products missing from the list that are still supported, and that's one of them. Bonus points if you request it get listed on the "Traditional Programming Languages" Web page: http://www-306.ibm.com/software/sw-bycategory/subcategory/SW760.html Thanks, Gilbert! - - - - - Timothy F. Sipples Consulting Enterprise Software Architect, z9/zSeries IBM Japan, Ltd. E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
