On Tue, 26 Sep 2017 12:50:37 -0400, John Eells wrote:
>
>And...something did.  The zPDT systems of the day did not support the
>necesary subset of the ECKD command set, exposing a bug that could be
>circumvented by using the old one until the fix was available.  We never
>found this in testing because (suprise!) no real disk devices are
>available that do *not* support ECKD as far as I know, and those from
>IBM have not been available for 20 years or more.
> 
Clearly IBM has a sunset policy for support of hardware:  You can't run
z/OS 1.13 on a 3031.  But is it different for peripheral devices?  Was
IBM claiming to support the device that exposed the problem, or could
it have been called user error; unsupported sustem?

-- gil

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