On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 08:04:39 -0600, Mark Rodger <mark_rod...@standardlife.com> wrote:
>No, it is full WDFM.. You won't be able to upgrade either. No microcode >changes so no CPU purchases, no new I/O cards. > >I agree with Mark, this is early. z900 and z990 from being made available >to End of upgrades was 6 years. z9 is 4 years 9 months with no announcement of >zNext (z11 ?). > Ahhh, thanks. That was the information that I really didn't want to take the time to research and was the point of my post. It just "felt" early even without me doing the research to back it up. Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group - ZFUS G-ITO mailto:mark.zel...@zurichna.com z/OS Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ Mark's MVS Utilities: http://home.flash.net/~mzelden/mvsutil.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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