On Fri, 8 Sep 2017 13:57:53 +0800, Timothy Sipples <[email protected]> wrote:
>IBM first introduced PDSEs about 27 years ago. IBM first introduced Java on >OS/390 about 21 years ago. > >That's a long, long time ago. > >It's impossible to defend stubborn opposition to these and to other highly >mature technologies. Business (and the business of government) will get >done, with or without you. If that's how you choose to (mis)behave, then I >can't criticize managers who decide to chuck you in the garbage heap of >history. If you won't change, then you should be/will be changed. I suppose >we can quibble about how much change makes business sense in particular >contexts, but zero is the wrong answer. > >Jimmy Iovine said it well: "Never stop being of service." > Still, the idea that safe, regulated sharing of a PDSE can only be guaranteed to members of a single sysplex, seems to hint that IBM thought at time that no one will ever need more than one sysplex. Doesn't it seem so? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
