No, as another has pointed out, if you want to buy an extended support contract to allow you to report and have IBM fix new problems without the uncertainty of time-and-materials, it's gonna cost big bucks.
We were actually running os/390 2.10 for over a year "unsupported" without costing us anything beyond the normal monthly software bills. Rex -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ted MacNEIL Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2007 4:16 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Costs not to go to z/OS 1.7 by March 31, 2007. >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. I honestly do not understand this statement. IBM has always supported 'unsupported' on a time and materials basis. We were out of support on OS/390 for 9 months before we got everybody to 1.4. We didn't pay extra. We will have one image in 1.4 until mid-April. Are you saying that we will have to pay extra just because we didn't get to 1.7 'fast enough'? When in doubt. PANIC!! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
