Chris, An offline response becuase I doubt many IBM-Mainers care about NetView, but ...
On Wed, 17 Jan 2007 17:51:08 +0100, Chris Mason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >... > There is the pretty much[3] cast iron rule which IBM imposes upon >itself that what worked once will continue to work. ... >... Several years ago when IBM came out with the Tivoli NetView 1.4 (as opposed to MVS NetView 1.4, many years earlier) it was the first time since the MVS NetView 1.2 (circa 1988) that NetView could not run with the previous release's parms. The New release might not run well; some functions (now called "towers") might not work; but NetView would work enough that you could log on. Tivoli NetView 1.4 simply would not initialize with the previous release's parms. (Hmm. It could have been 1.3 rather than 1.4. Whenever the Stylesheet came into existance.) I was a member of SHARE's Tivoli technical Steering Committe at the time (and still am, sort of - a Member Demeritis) so got advanced word of this. I suggested this was not a good idea. (Others might have called my reaction "going ballistic".) But we heard about it too late to have any real influence so the incompatability went forward. I rarely have anything negative to say about/to Tom Howe (as long as the topic is not politics <g>), but had words with him over that. Pat O'Keefe ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
