What chaps me the most is that it's not a complete solution. It is being
enhanced "on the fly", release-to-release, with customers as the testers.

The z/OSMF Configuration Guide at the V2R5 level is 400+ pages; the z/OSMF
Programming Guide at the V2R5 level is 1200+ pages! This is NOT a facility
that one learns to use or modify quickly.

Mike Shaw
MVS/QuickRef Support Group
Chicago-Soft, Ltd.


On Wed, May 24, 2023 at 4:22 PM Phil Smith III <li...@akphs.com> wrote:

> Harris Randy wrote, in part:
> >I do understand the need to atract younger people to the mainframe.
>
> >What I don't understand is why IBM would take away a working method
> >(SERVERPAC) and force those of us with grey to learn something new
> >when we well know how to use what we already have in place. And, a lot
> >of us looking at retirement not toooo far away.
>
> Well, that one’s easy: Someone thinks z/OSMF does it all, so why would you
> need two things that solve the same problem? Or, being more generous,
> someone thinks z/OSMF can/will do it all, so…
>
>
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