[Default] On 11 Apr 2017 06:12:34 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main [email protected] (John McKown) wrote:
>On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 8:10 AM, David Crayford <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 11/04/2017 9:01 PM, John McKown wrote: >> >>> http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/ShowDoc.wss?docURL=/common/ >>> ssi/rep_ca/6/897/ENUS217-186/index.html&request_locale=en >>> >>> Just looks like it is announcing that z/OS PL/I 5.1 (and above?) will go >>> with the new "continuous delivery" that IBM is embracing instead of period >>> new releases. >>> >> >> Is it a good thing or a bad thing? All the major vendors have done the >> same, MacOS, Windows etc. Not to mention the evergreen browsers. That can >> be a very good thing >> because you get automatic updates which developers can leverage to roll >> out great new stuff. >> >> For mainframes it's a huge paradigm shift. Mainframe customers value >> stability and like to test on version boundaries. It will interesting to >> see how this pans out. >> > >?Why am I shuddering? and thinking "shades of JES2 level set PTFs"? Of >course, nothing will heal the scars from DF/EF. I remember Jamie Yates then with IBM getting up in front of a SHARE session and among other things saying IBM had customers calling in with SEV 1 DF/EF catalog problems before they experienced one because they would have one by the time they got a call back. He had other horror stories. I got very familiar with PE chains on DFP and nearly canceled going to SHARE because of potential problems. I called it Darned Fragile Product. Clark Morris ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
