Hello Thomas, I don't like to see any of them removed. The download directory comes wit h a clear disclamer. Use at your own risk, IBM doesn't support any of the
materials found there. In our procedures we document the utility and the workaround when it doesn't work anymore. Usually it means we need to do a task manualy or using a different tool. Take PIPEDDR for instance. When it can't be used anymore we must fall back to the old tape DDR to move data from one VM to another. But as long as it works we keep on using the PIPEDDR. We also used MOVESEG some time ago. But after migrating to zVM it did not work anymore. So we moved to using DCSSBKUP/DCSSRSAV from the CMS utilities. So we did have a workaround for this utility. And the CMS utilities are supported by IBM. I agree that source codes could help us. But to remove a utility when someone leaves the mainframe world could mean we lose a lot of usefull utilities. The same is true for other materials found on the web. Take the PIPELINE runtime library for instance. While it is not supported by IBM it does provide us with functionality we do not have with the IBM supplied materials. IBM even links to the materials from the downloads page. But once again, one must be aware of the risks and make sure some work around does exist before using a utility. Regards, Berry. On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 12:44:11 -0500, Thomas Kern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >It would help if IBM released the source code to these programs when the ir >internal support retires. Or remove them from the public offering.
