[Default] On 30 Aug 2017 04:43:59 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main
[email protected] (Peter Relson) wrote:

>It is very disturbing to see someone use an inflammatory representation 
>such as the initial subject of this thread when that is very much *not* 
>what the SOD said.

The handwriting was on the wall decades ago on JES3.  SMS was made
available to JES2 shops on XA but not JES3.  JES3 required the
licensing of BDT to get SNA NJE while JES2 had it native.  SNA NJE
between JES3 and VSE did not work requiring resolution by what I
recall was the Network Protocol Board (I was the systems and JES3
programmer at the shop that was first to try it).  Over the years the
more expensive job entry sub-system was the last to get some new
functions if it ever got them.  I would highly recommend that JES3
shops have an active project to get off JES3 and save money.

Clark Morris 
>
>Maybe in practice stabilization will result in some JES3 users choosing to 
>move (perhaps because they need new function that would become available 
>only in JES2), but IBM is not dropping JES3, nor did the statement of 
>direction say or imply anything about doing so. That's like saying just 
>because we might have stabilized some system service that you must stop 
>using it. That too would be a faulty conclusion.
>
>Regardless, input such as what Cheryl W refers to is important.
>
>(John Eells would probably have stated the above in a cleaner way; 
>apologies to him.)
>
>Peter Relson
>z/OS Core Technology Design
>
>
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