Hello Dave Craig,
I think that you have been out of the zSeries world for a while. VSE/VSAM for VM is gone. Yes, this is a fact. As for the other parts, I think you need to go to WAVV next year. WWW.WAVV.ORG <http://www.wavv.org/> Not all the new presentations are out there, but I will find the 'z/VSE In An Elevator' This gives you the information to see that z/VSE is not going anywhere and does make money for IBM. Here is doc on z/VM http://www.vm.ibm.com/library/zvm540da.pdf and where it is going. Ed Martin Aultman Health Foundation 330-363-5050 ext 35050 -----Original Message----- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of David L. Craig Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2009 2:25 PM > snip We have never used ICCF, only CMS for Applications Development and Production Control. I'm sure you can understand why. Management has had us stuck in the 20th Century and now seems to be ready to accept the migration from the mainframe has taken so much longer than expected they have to upgrade. Only CMS compilers are gone. CMS VSAM is gone. Please give us a Staement of Direction regarding CMS itself--don't keep us in an office pool about its EoS. Is that too much to ask? If so, we need to plan to move those functions off CMS as part of the upgrade. Management may very well decide to continue limping along while they beef up the migration effort. Frankly, I wouldn't blame them, as VSE has never been really profitable either, has it? -- May the LORD God bless you exceedingly abundantly! Dave Craig
