>From other posts, it seems this was intended to allow customers running
programs they either lost, or never had, source code for. In that case, I
don't think there is a "nice simple way" to get around the restriction.

In article <CA+AiZz2DXvsrN2XCkDNPUZGKRaPMssczd+D6ud=_3aqhatd...@mail.gmail.com> 
you wrote:
> You ignored the context of my statement, and your response doesn't address
> it. I don't see much added value of a new and complicated way of bypassing
> the restriction, when there was already a nice simple way.  While it may be
> intended for particular customers, the "feature" is public.  And while it's
> common knowledge big customers tend to get what they want, I'm not clear
> why RUCSA is what they wanted (vs. the parm).
> Regardless, I'm only idly curious, this has no effect on my business.
> sas
> On Wed, Sep 11, 2019 at 5:48 PM Mark Zelden <m...@mzelden.com> wrote:

> > On Tue, 10 Sep 2019 12:06:59 -0400, Steve Smith <sasd...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > > So, I'm not sure why
> > >IBM is going to all this trouble to ban it, then unban it a little bit.
> > >
> >
> > I think I alluded to it in my OP and IBM also responded that it was for "a
> > particular set
> > of customers".  It wasn't because IBM thought "hey, this sounds like a
> > good idea" and
> > did all the development work to take a step backwards.
> >
> > Big customers paying IBM big money have big voices.  It may have just been
> > one big
> > customer, who knows (other than IBM).
> >
> > Regards,

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