Ed Gould wrote:
On Feb 10, 2006, at 10:12 AM, Knutson, Sam wrote:
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It seems like feeding any updates for vendor products not already listed
in the current IBM sample to the console team is a good idea for the MVS
community and you too.
Sam:
Good job and good effort. Did you get positive feedback from the
vendors as "updates" ? (did they deliver in a timely fashion?)
It's doubtful there are many mainstream ISV products left to be
identified. The one-byte console ID tracking feature has been generally
available and being actively used throughout the world-wide z/OS
community for over two years now. (It was released in February 2004 with
the Console Availability enhancements in z/OS 1.4.2 aka JBB7727). ISVs
and ESP customers had access to it much earlier that.
The console ID tracking effort has been exhaustively discussed at SHARE
(beginning with the February 2004 conference in Long Beach), CA-World,
z/OS Expo and other user group meetings.
One-byte EMCS migration IDs were completely desupported as of z/OS 1.7,
which became GA last September.
At this point, the one-byte console ID tracking effort is primarily
aimed at identifying problems in "home gown" code and products from
small ISVs that don't pay much attention to what's going on. All of the
"heavy lifting" should have been done by now.
IMNSHO, any major software developers (including those at IBM) with
products still using one-byte console IDs should be considered
irresponsible. The problem should have been addressed years ago.
Hopefully, we can avoid the temptation to give them "kudos" for
addressing the problem in a reactionary manner -- no matter how quickly
they respond. (Face it. The Prodigal Son was a jerk!) Naturally, this
comment does not refer to discovering a rarely-executed condition in a
product thought to have been already made compliant. Software "bugs" are
a fact of life and nobody is perfect!
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