Ron MacRae asks >Craddock, Chris wrote: > >Peter Relson doles out anchor table slots on request (one per vendor). > > As an employee of an ISV who'se product could make good use of this > feature, I've some questions that perhaps Peter could answer. > > Q1) What are the criteria for being allocated an ISV Anchor Table slot? > Presumably it's more than just ask and you'll get one.
I am not aware of any specific criteria, but I would assume that a Partnerworld membership ought to be sufficient. In theory vendors get exactly one slot in the table, but a few have ended up with more as a result of M&A. but realistically you only need one. > Q2) Assuming we meet the criteria what is the process for getting one? Send an email to Peter Relson and ask politely. (Yeah, its that formal :) > Q3) Assuming a slot was allocated would it be in z/OS 1.8 and above or > could it be retro fitted to earlier supported levels? The table is just a contiguous block of SQA allocated during IPL and is (as far as I know) more than enough to accommodate all of the current users. If the table needed to expand, I imagine IBM would deliver service to do that and you might get involved in notifying your customers that they need to apply said maintenance before running your product. I've never seen it expand (yet) but I can't say for sure it won't. > If this is all documented somewhere perhaps you could point me at the doc. Oh surely you jest. This is tribal knowledge. There is no doc. CC ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
