On Sun, 17 Aug 2008 14:02:47 -0500, Mark Zelden wrote: > >Unless you need to support the new holddata being received into your CSI, I >don't think you need to do the UPGRADE. That should take care of most > ... > >The easiest thing to do is to install 3.5 everywhere you can. > OTOH:
On Fri, 8 Aug 2008 08:52:10 -0400, John Eells wrote: > >> o Would instructing customers requiring coexistence to upgrade >> rather than providing coexistence PTFs relieve IBM of the >> burden of triply parallel support and allow IBM to provide >> better customer support by concentrating on a single release? > >I really doubt it; how much code and programmer time does it take to >ignore some new keywords and continue to support stable releases of >SMP/E? Let's not make an anthill sound like an Alp. I see no value >(and very possible "negative value") in forcing everyone to upgrade to >the latest SMP/E--and on a short schedule, at that. As an ISV, we will likely have customers of both persuasions and we ought to test in all customer-like environments. But, as you suggest, if we don't issue the newfangled HOLDDATA, we have little to test for. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
