On Thu, 9 Jul 2009 07:20:01 -0400, Mark Jacobs <[email protected]> wrote:
>Bob Shannon wrote: >>> Does this mean that those of us who bought z9s in the past two years are >>> already obsolete? >>> >> >> Only if you want to run z/VM 6.1 and higher. >> >> Bob Shannon >> Rocket Software >> >> > >It wouldn't surprise me in the slightest to find out that IBM is already >planning for zOS V2 that will require the new ALS. > A new ALS requirement doesn't mean the OS has to be re-versioned. That decision is a marketing one, not technical. Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group - ZFUS G-ITO mailto:[email protected] 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 [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
