On Feb 15, 2008, at 9:36 AM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote:
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 02/14/2008
at 09:16 PM, Ed Gould <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
You haver an interesting question but I think the root question is
How
is the compatibility between the versions
IMHO it depends more on the shop than on the versions. What exits
do they
use? What local mods do they have? What 3rd party software do they
have?
I agree that is a big consideration as well. Its been *AGES* and I
don't remember the version but one of the TSO(e) products changed
dramatically and it took 6 months of bringing in users on the
weekends (no test LPARs & NO VM) to get the users comfortable with
the new version of ISPF . I must admit I was surprised by all the
differences we were so busy that we were not able to attend SHARE or
GUIDE but I think I asked later of a friend that attended GUIDE about
any special conversion issues that were brought up and he could not
remember any sessions. So either it was us or the rest of the world
could adopt to things that we weren't able to.
The EXITS issue is another PITA issue JES2 was pretty good for 10-15
years and then they really started to change the exits quite a bit
every few versions. I tried it keep our exits pretty vanilla so no
major work was required but I still remember hearing people crying in
their beer at SCIDS one SHARE about the rewrites they had to go
through. Is it their fault , yes... a little... but to change the
basic code for an exit is inexcusable . Like at the SMF exits and the
entry (and exit) had probably not changed in many many years (I am
sure someone will find a minor issue with that but its probably a
small issue).
I have a severe chest cod and its clouding my thought processes up a
little so if I have been mistaken about something I apologize in
advance but this cold will not go away.
Ed
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