As I have stated numerous times. The "new tools" that IBM is replacing the traditional "green screen" apps are designed by a bunch of PFCSK's with no concept of enterprise operations.
In addition (although improving), the new tools are not as reliable or available as their predecessors. Nor do they perform better. z/OS, the flagship operating system claims "6 nines" of availability (about 31 seconds/year). This amounts to about 9 1/2 years' worth of z/OS outages. The support tools should be as available as the systems they are supporting. IBM should be embarrassed that they cannot provide this availability. <snip> "Service Information Search (SIS) application is going to be unavailable next Friday, January 05th, starting at 21:00 Eastern Time through Saturday, ending at 02:00 AM Eastern Time." </snip> This email including attachments may contain confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, do not copy, distribute or act on it. Instead, notify the sender immediately and delete the message. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
