On Tue, 5 Dec 2023 15:33:16 -0600, Mark Zelden <[email protected]> wrote:
<snip> >My only real complaint about all of this is that it caught me by surprise. >The requirement >was announced at the last possible time it could - the last quarterly >announcement for z/OS 2.4 >enhancements (I think) as a statement of direction. I always look at those >announcements >for enhancements but don't normally pay close attention to the statements of >direction >if in there. I would have thought something "this big" would have been in the >z/OS 2.4 >announcement in the "Statements of direction" section and that would have >given me 2 years >to plan and execute. <snip> Before the announcement police correct me, I will correct myself. It was the z/OS 2.4 2020 Q3 enhancements. There were still 3 more after that for z/OS 2.4. However, it was not in the z/OS 2.4 availability announcement and that is where I have always seen major upcoming changes announced in the statements of direction, some of them have had multiple releases of "warnings", https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/announcements/zos-v24-3q-enhancements?region=US Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS ITIL v3 Foundation Certified mailto:[email protected] Mark's MVS Utilities: http://www.mzelden.com/mvsutil.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
