Since SuperSession is so great (and it is much better than TPX and from what I remember of Session Manager), how come it is so hard to find a session entry. When you have a menu with a hundred of more sessions, a simple 'FIND sessid' would be most helpful instead of having to scroll down thru numerous entries, but the 'SuperProgrammers' who wrote the thing could never figure out a way to do this.
-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Mark Zelden Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2009 10:13 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Supersession to CA-TPX On Thu, 11 Jun 2009 15:58:59 +0900, Timothy Sipples <e99...@jp.ibm.com> wrote: >Also probably getting off topic, but is there anything particularly >wrong with CL/SUPERSESSION? IBM still supports it, and there is no end >of service planned. > >If for some reason there is something wrong with CL/SUPERSESSION, there >is a one-for-one trade option to switch to IBM Session Manager if >that's a better fit. See IBM announcement letter 205-066 for details: > >http://www.ibm.com/common/ssi/rep_ca/6/897/ENUS205-066/ENUS205-066.PDF > CL/SUPERSESSION is not strategic. And please don't take offense and please excuse my bluntness and language - but ISM sucks. (**disclaimer.... this is my personal opinion and does not represent the opinions of my company.) Through many years of consulting at dozens of shops, I've used them all. Supersession, TPX, Teleview, Tubes, VMAN, Switch, PIE, InterSession, NVAS, and even just good 'ol Netview TAF. I've probably missed a couple too. CL/SUPERSESSION is my favorite and TPX is second. I'm not saying ISM is the worst out of all the ones I listed above, it just doesn't compare to Supersession and TPX. We had a mixture of CL/SUPERSESSION and TPX mostly and also PIE used from CICS. IBM sold us ISM to save us money. Then the Candle acquisition took place before we really started any migrations. I was hoping we would then stick with SuperSession since both were IBM, but that is when we were told that SuperSession was not strategic and it would be ISM that was enhanced. I also had conversations with a CL developer at SHARE who confirmed. All that being said... ISM has always done it's job as a VTAM session manager. Even from the first version we used. It has gotten a lot better from where it started, but still has a very long way to go to win my heart. Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group - ZFUS G-ITO mailto:mark.zel...@zurichna.com z/OS 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 lists...@bama.ua.edu 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 lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
