Of course companies large and small are wont to portray mergers and acquisitions as all sweetness and light. It happens in this case that the Serena/Micro Focus fusion was consummated in 2016, probably leaving waters considerably muddied for some time.
https://www.microfocus.com/about/press-room/article/2016/micro-focus-completes-acquisition-of-serena-software-inc/ . . J.O.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 323-715-0595 Mobile 626-543-6132 Office ⇐=== NEW robin...@sce.com -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Ed Jaffe Sent: Friday, June 08, 2018 9:38 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: (External):Re: IKJEFTSR On 6/8/2018 9:12 AM, Jesse 1 Robinson wrote: > Micro Focus has stated that the next release of StarTool is required to fix > this particular problem. It's not just a nicety. Current releases of StarTool > will not run *at all* under z/OS 2.3. New release (7.8.1) goes GA on June 15. Wow! z/OS 2.3 was made available to ISVs in October 2016 through the IBM PartnerWorld Early Testing Program (ETP)! (Is that 20 months ago?) Sounds like you're dealing with a classic "cash cow" product situation here. On "life support" with fixes only as needed. No dedicated developers, new requirements, enhancements, day-1 z/OS toleration, etc. Not even basic toleration testing... -- Phoenix Software International Edward E. Jaffe 831 Parkview Drive North El Segundo, CA 90245 http://www.phoenixsoftware.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
