Eric N. Bielefeld wrote:
This surely seems like a good way to start killing the mainframe. Get rid of the developers of software products for your system. Also, get rid of all of the really small companies off the mainframe that will never now grow into large customers. There doesn't seem to be a lot of smarts in IBM in some areas.
I keep trying to get their attention, but to no avail.
I have a question. I know this has been discussed in the past, but I haven't heard any updates lately. Does the FlexEs product legally run z/OS in 64 bit addressing mode yet? The last we discussed it on IBM-Main, if I remember correctly, you couldn't run 64 bit addressing mode, meaning z/OS 1.6 and above wouldn't run on it.
We just installed 1.7; there are still some of the newer hardware instructions that are not supported - unlike Hercules, where instruction support seems more robust; but, of course, they're not a legal platform for running z/OS. [In fairness, I was able to run in 64-bit amode pretty early on.]
Why would IBM want to kill off their smallest customers? It just doesn't make sense. IBM is sure sending a lot of mixed signals! Phil Payne - where are you?
Small doesn't return big returns. Future? Ah, you mean next quarter. After all, "we're a bit of an elephant so it takes us a little time to turn around". But I've been told there are changes a'brewin'. We'll see. Kind regards, -Steve Comstock ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
