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> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of David Cole
>
> In today's competitive and quarter-report driven business climate, IBM no
> longer can afford the
> "luxury" of doing anything simply for completeness. A "business case" needs
> to be made for everything.
> So IBM has done only just enough 64-bit support to satisfy the business case,
> and such "niceties" as
> 64-bit support in TSO Test, full blown
> RMODE64 execution (just to name two) can't be justified economically.
>
> Personally, I do not think that "economic justification" should be the sole
> driver of business
> decisions, but on the other hand, z/XDC certainly has benefited from IBM's
> inattention to Assembler
> language debugging.
And may "The Force" [continue to] be with you.
Though not always "economically justifiable", the philosophy "because we can"
frequently remains a viable driver to do what ought to be done.
-jc-
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