The only reason we did that was because the conversion of one release to another started almost 2.5 years ago.
Remember that I said that the problem wasn't the installation of the system but rather the application testing. That's what took us so long to go from v1.4 to v1.7. Thanks for all the responses on the wait between STC. George Rodriguez Specialist, Systems Programmer Network & Technical Services (561) 357-7652 (office) (561) 707-3496 (mobil) School District of Palm Beach County 3348 Forest Hill Blvd. Room B-332 West Palm Beach, FL. 33406-5869 Florida Only A-Rated Urban District For Five Consecutive Years ----- Original Message ----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu> To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu <IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu> Sent: Tue Sep 08 22:30:35 2009 Subject: Re: Startup of All STCs After IPL At 14:13 -0500 on 09/08/2009, Mark Zelden wrote about Re: Startup of All STCs After IPL: >On Tue, 8 Sep 2009 11:35:28 -0700, Edward Jaffe ><edja...@phoenixsoftware.com> wrote: > >>George Rodriguez wrote: >>> The truth is that we just got off of v1.4... Not because of the system >>> work that was required, but because of the testing that needed to be >>> done by application support. There was a great deal of changes that were >>> needed to go to v1.7 and to eliminate a double billing situation with 2 >>> versions of CICS (v1.3 and v3.1). Now that we are done, the plan is to >>> go to v1.9 and in a couple of years go to v1.10 or v1.11 (depending on >>> how stable it is). >>> >> >>I'm just concerned that you're spending valuable time upgrading from an >>unsupported release to a release that becomes unsupported exactly three >>weeks from tomorrow... >> >>See http://www.ibm.com/systems/z/os/zos/support/zos_eos_dates.html >> > >He still has another year My question is why waste the time/effort to go to from v1.4 to v1.7 only to get one year of support when going to v1.8 would seem to be the same time/effort and would result in a number of years of support. It is not as if v1.8 was bleeding edge and thus a larger risk than v1.7. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------- --------------Palm Beach County Schools--------------------- Rated "A" by the Florida Department of Education 2005-2009 -----Home of Florida's first LEED Gold Certified School----- -----------http://www.palmbeachschools.org------------- The District of Palm Beach County is an Equal Education Opportunity Provider and Employer. Under Florida law, e-mail addresses are public records. If you do not want your e-mail address released in response to a public records request, do not send electronic mail to this entity. Instead, contact this office by phone or in writing. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
