Walt, My biggest issue isn’t with IBM. As an ISV spending can be tough in this economy.
Scott On Thu, Sep 13, 2018 at 3:08 PM Walt Farrell <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, 13 Sep 2018 09:21:39 -0700, Charles Mills <[email protected]> > wrote: > > >I do think IBM needs to somehow better accommodate ISVs. My understanding > is that "you have to own a real mainframe" to get access to the security > >portal. Thus ISVs who own only zPDTs or who rent time at Dallas do not > qualify. > > I am not certain that having access to the portal would help you very much > here. Unless things have changed significantly in the 7 years since I left > IBM, having access to the portal allowed users to find out that a Security > or Integrity problem existed but did not give them any real details about > the nature of the problem. Most IBMers couldn't even get those details, > unless they were directly involved in resolving the problem. > > As you're a vendor, I would expect IBM to notify you directly of any > changes that they expected to affect you, just as they do (or did, when I > was there) when making interface changes. > > Some things have probably changed since then, but I would be surprised if > IBM has started making more information available _to anyone_ in this area. > > -- > Walt > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- Scott Ford IDMWORKS z/OS Development ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
