Paul Gilmartin wrote ( à propos the use of a macro to provide alternative support for an unavailable machine instruction):
<begin extract> Business decision. That might be perceived as weakening the incentive for customers to upgrade. </end extract> Alternatively, and with more reason, it could be construed as a performance argument for upgrading. --jg On 9/18/12, Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 18 Sep 2012 09:57:42 -0400, John Gilmore wrote: >> >>It could also be used by ISVs. FLOGR is not, for example available on >>all of the mainframes currently in use, but its availability changes >>the rules for bit-map processing in a fundamental way. Shipping a >>FLOGR macro with a product that notionally uses the FLOGR instruction >>would eliminate the need, felt by some ISVs, to avoid it (and other >>instructions of that ilk). >> > Business decision. That might be perceived as weakening the > incentive for customers to upgrade. > > -- gil > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
