Thanks for the information, much appreciated but <sigh>, it makes the job of the product install team (me for zOS) much harder to get pieces of the current operating system build from multiple vendors.
Mark Jacobs ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] on behalf of John Eells [[email protected]] Sent: Monday, June 17, 2013 4:12 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Ported Tools - Unix Mark Jacobs wrote: <snip> > > What is the difference between the Rocket Software Ported tools package > and the one ordered via ShopZSeries? > (Posting on behalf of Jeff Magdall, who saw your post.) I wanted to respond to the questions you asked about IBM's Ported Tools offering. If you look at the IBM Ported Tools offering closely, some of the tools are down level. Rocket Software has elected to offer more current versions for some of these tools, and we understand they also offer optional fee based support. Rocket Software's offering is separate and distinct from IBM's, and for specific information about it, you should contact Rocket Software. The IBM Ported Tools product remains orderable through Shopz. Although plans can change, IBM has no plans right now to duplicate what Rocket Software has done. In fact, we are pleased to see others in the System z community offering popular tooling, and we might, for example, point to Rocket Software's site for clients that are interested in getting more current versions. I will share that we (IBM) are working on plans to update our Apache HTTP Server and OpenSSH offerings, and we will try to make information available as we conclude. Also, I think it's worth mentioning that we worked closely with Rocket Software to provide them whatever we could from our previous work on the tools they were interested in. We are pleased to see them contributing these tools to the z Community and encourage others to join. Jeff Magdall z/OS Product Manager & PDT Lead [email protected] -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie [email protected] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
