Like Y2K, this might open up a whole new career opportunity for someone with an itch to move around.
HAVE GUN WILL TRAVEL WIRE JAFFE LOS ANGELES . . 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 [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ed Jaffe Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2019 2:42 PM To: [email protected] Subject: (External):Re: z/OS V2R5 Will be the Last Release to Include JES3 On 2/26/2019 10:35 AM, Elardus Engelbrecht wrote: > >> There is still much more to do to bring JES2 up to JES3 standard, but >> apparently IBM believes they can get it all done by September 2021... > Hahaha, LOL, I don't believe in such predictions that something will happens > at time X/Y/Z. Usually I take such 'predictions' with a very small pinch of > tasteless salt, but I will remember it and wait at the predicted date/time. Haha! Me too! I've won almost every bet I've ever made on such timelines being overly-optimistic. LOL :-D > Oh, wait, big blue forgot about backward compatibility... In a BIG way! :-\ > I however see, there will be a lot of vendors trying to assisting conversion > to JES2 from JES3. You're right! Among others, I suspect IBM Global Services will try to pretend they actually know how to perform the conversion and charge tremendous sums of money to try to do so! =-O There's plenty of time to get it right. By my calculation, today's announcement gives JES3 only another 10 1/2 years of life before it becomes fully unsupported software. I might be retired by then... ;-) -- Phoenix Software International Edward E. Jaffe 831 Parkview Drive North El Segundo, CA 90245 https://www.phoenixsoftware.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
