For those who have not made the migration off z/OS 1.4 by March 31,
2007, it will become VERY expensive.
We are cutting over the end of this month to z/OS 1.7, so we are okay.
But, we have found out that if the cutover did not occur by March 31st,
it would cost a good deal of money for continued support. This is on top
of your monthly charges and that you would have to pay
at a minimum, six months. So doing the math, it gets into six figures
rather quickly. That by itself is some incentive to get off z/OS 1.4.
I assume you mean the costs to purchase continued service on z/OS 1.4
after the EOS date. I don't doubt that is very expensive.
But consider if you really need to do so. What you are purchasing is
* the ability to get new PTFs for new problems discovered in z/OS 1.4
* the privilege of having IBM Level 2 work on diagnosing problems you
have (or think you have) in z/OS 1.4
Existing APARs and PTFs for z/OS 1.4 are still available, so if you have
the inhouse expertise to diagnose a problem and match it to an APAR that
you have not applied, that will all still work. You can search IBMLINK
for existing z/OS 1.4 fixes.
I'm not advocating running on an unsupported system but if you have a
plan to upgrade but can't make it by the 1.4 EOS date, skipping the
expensive support contract may be an option
--
Bruce Black
Senior Software Developer
Innovation Data ProcessingExisting
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