Thanks to everyone for all the support. As many of you know, we have
been working with JES3 for decades, so it's a perfect fit for us.
As a customer focused company, we really listen to what our customers
tell us. They asked for this, so we stepped up the plate.
We licensed JES3 from IBM for the purpose of extending its life
indefinitely. Our initial product release (planned for GA March 2020)
will be functionally equivalent to z/OS 2.4 JES3, but unlike IBM we
intend to support back-level BCPs (probably z/OS 2.2 and higher since
JES3 has not been enhanced by IBM one iota since that time). So we will
be looking for early support customers as soon as we have something
packaged, tested, and ready to ship -- perhaps January...
We will begin to functionally enhance JES3 starting with the 2nd release
and, unlike IBM, we plan annual releases just like the rest of our
products. We'll probably re-sync on a September release schedule in 2020
or 2021 to ensure we're positioned to offer Day #1 support of new z/OS
releases as they are released.
It's not every day someone acquires a core z/OS component from IBM (has
that EVER happened?) so you can be sure we will treat it with the
respect it deserves.
But, more than anything else, we're gonna have fun!
--
Phoenix Software International
Edward E. Jaffe
Chief Technology Officer
831 Parkview Drive North
El Segundo, CA 90245
https://www.phoenixsoftware.com/
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