I sent the following information to the SHARE LNGC project email list, but thought that some within IBM-MAIN and comp.lang.cobol might also be interested (impacted).
**** Today, Oct 9, in IBM (US) announcement 907-207 that you can view online at: http://www.ibm.com/vrm/newsletter_10577_2055_47992_email_DYN_1IN/WKlein1 2584487 IBM has announced that CICS TS V2.3 will be withdrawn from marketing on January 14, 2008 (in the US) with a statement of direction that they plan on removing it from service on September 30, 2009. The significance to readers of this note is that this is the LAST release of CICS TS for which IBM provides support for OS/VS COBOL compiled programs. (After this, they won't even come up in an "IBM-only" environment. I assume that those for whom this might matter, already know that there is at least one 3rd party vendor - and possibly more - that provides their own support for OS/VS COBOL compiled programs in later versions of CICS - but this does not change the fact that IBM support won't be available.) If this is an issue for your shop, please make certain that all the appropriate people are made aware of it. If you are outside the US, then you should check for a corresponding announcement letter in your area. -- Bill Klein wmklein <at> ix.netcom.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
