A more outrageous example. Some years ago management decided that we did not really need Netview, so they refused to order the next upgrade that was actually quite a bit more expensive. BUILDMCS came to the rescue. By comparison with Book Mgr, Netview is very complicated. Had elements in NUCLEUS as I recall. Nonetheless it worked long enough for management to see the light and pony up for the next version. BUILDMCS a powerful tool.
. . . J.O.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 626-302-7535 Office 323-715-0595 Mobile jo.skip.robin...@sce.com -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of John Eells Sent: Thursday, October 22, 2015 10:20 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: (External):Re: Bookmanager BUILD and z/OS V2.2 Juergen Kehr wrote: > As you probably know Bookmanager BUILD isn't supported and delivered with > z/OS V2.2 anymore. > > We've had the idea to transfer the "old" Bookmanager BUILD FMIDs via BUILDMCS > into a seperate CSI in the V2.2 environment. Now our question is: Will this > work? Of course it's not offically supported, but their are many unsupported > old z/OS or even MVS or OS/VS product, which run perfect although in very new > environments. > > Does anybody have any experiences with this approach? Thanks in advance. <snip> We generally do not break things on purpose when they are no longer supported or offered. For example, I think BTAM/SP worked for at *least* a decade after we withdrew it, and maybe even two. However, we also do not test with them, and if we happen to make a change that breaks them, we will not even know we did it--as happened, eventually, to BTAM. That said, my guess is that Bookmanager Build does nothing special and will likely continue to work. The usual caveats around BUILDMCS apply, though. ACCEPT all service first, look in the zone where it's installed to see whether it has any cross-FMID considerations that would preclude installation in a separate zone and libraries (e.g., shared load modules), and so on. If it does have an intra-zone dependency, it might even be something reasonably easy to manage (such as an interaction with Bookmanager Read, which you could BUILDMCS out and install alongside it). BUILDMCS is remarkably fast, and APPLYing something relatively small without any PTFs is pretty quick too. I'd be inclined to do some quick checking, try it, and see whether it works. -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
