I guess we will finally have to junk our IBM 3850/3851 :)

Richard Pinion

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On Wednesday, July 29th, 2026 at 5:23 PM, Jay Maynard 
<[email protected]> wrote:

> On the list of devices that will be dropped is OSAD, the diagnostic
> interface to the OSA used by OSA/SF. We have, in our IOCDS, definitions for
> our OSAs that consist of 15 OSA devices and 1 OSAD device.
> 
> I'm no expert on the OSA configuration stuff in current z/OS. I don't even
> know if we're running OSA/SF (or if it's one of those things that runs all
> the time). If IBM's dropping support for the OSAD, then how are they going
> to do the equivalent function? Do I even need to care now, at z/OS 3.2,
> aside from removing the definition at some point in the future?
> 
> On Tue, Jul 28, 2026 at 2:09 PM Steve Beaver <
> [email protected]> wrote:
> 
> >
> > https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/announcements/statements-direction-zos-2026-07-28
> >
> --
> Jay Maynard
> 
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