On Thu, 9 Jul 2009 10:07:59 -0400, Mark Jacobs <[email protected]> wrote:
>Mark Zelden wrote: >> >> A new ALS requirement doesn't mean the OS has to be re-versioned. >> That decision is a marketing one, not technical. >> >> Mark >> >> >> >I agree, but the point I was trying to make was that we can expect some >future level of zOS to require the new ALS. It's happened before and it >will happen again. Well of course. That has always been true. It comes with progress / invention. Sometimes, the new ALS means a renaming of the OS. But again, that has always been a marketing decision, not a technical one. 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
