Mark, I did not say that MXI 4.3 users would be stranded if something breaks - it is just that I *really* do not have the resources and time to guarantee to fix any problems that may occur. In the "old" days I was a sysprog and would come home at 6pm and worked on MXI in the evening - these days my working day starts at about 9am and finishes about midnight.....
MXI 4.3 has always been available primarily on my own web-site (and now on Rocket's) - the fact that it is on the CBT site is because I was asked if I would like to contibute to it. Freeware is software that is free - I do not see an implication of supplied source. Rob Scott Rocket Software, Inc 275 Grove Street Newton, MA 02466 617-614-2305 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Zelden Sent: 17 July 2007 15:30 To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: MXI 4.3 (was Re: SMP/E question - how to find dsname ?) On Tue, 17 Jul 2007 09:49:27 -0400, Rob Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >What I mean by "frozen" is that there will be no future enhancements to >MXI 4.3 and over time I expect some commands to either stop functioning or start abending. > Too bad. I though you had planned to at least fix things that broke even though you would not add any new functionality. And since it was never source code CBT based, I guess the mainframe community is SOL because I'm sure you (nor Rocket) don't have any intention of ever releasing the source code to the freeware version (although PDS continues to have a freeware version and there is also a successful commercial version as well). I understand you need to make a living, but it is an unfortunate loss to the rest of us. I will probably get rid of it or un-APF authorize it and only use unauthorized functions moving forward if I keep it. Nothing against you Rob (really), but perhaps the keepers of the CBT collection (now Sam Golob and Sam Knutson) should not allow load code only contributions for just this reason. It sort of takes away from the spirit of freeware and what the CBT is all about (IMO). Long live ShowMVS! :-) Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group: G-ITO mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] z/OS and OS390 expert at http://searchDataCenter.com/ateExperts/ Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ Mark's MVS Utilities: http://home.flash.net/~mzelden/mvsutil.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
