Lionel, have you tried to locate the physical or electronic z/OS 2.2 media you (or somebody else) ordered and used to upgrade your other system to z/OS 2.2? That media should still work, and obviously somebody had possession of that media at some point. Otherwise you wouldn't have a system running z/OS 2.2.
I should probably mention that IBM eliminated the Single Version Charge (SVC) periods -- every licensee now has "Multi-Version Measurement" -- so there shouldn't be any harm in electronically ordering every new release of your licensed IBM software products, on day one of general availability if you wish, then at least placing the product images in your secure internal repository, ready for use. (Better yet: get them installed in at least one development LPAR.) I think there's only one rare exception to this general "order every new release of products you already have" advice: if you happen to be licensing an ancient or older COBOL compiler, and you have not yet licensed Enterprise COBOL. If you're ordering and stashing every new release on or soon after the GA dates, then the End of Marketing (EoM) dates will never matter. If you think ShopZ ought to support automatic new release ordering, then you can ask: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Timothy Sipples IT Architect Executive, Industry Solutions, IBM Z & LinuxONE, Multi-Geography E-Mail: sipp...@sg.ibm.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
