I guess we will finally have to junk our IBM 3850/3851 :) Richard Pinion
Sent with Proton Mail secure email. 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 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
