Gene Hudders wrote:
Hi Mark:
I guess that you don't need any software support to support these features?
Regards,
Gene
Mark's right. While new software is often required to support *new*
features, it's not required to support *older* hardware. Going from a
z9 BC to a z800 is going from newer technology to older technology, and
the z800 is supported by all supported releases of z/OS.
See Slide 6 on p. 3 of:
http://ew.share.org/client_files/callpapers/attach/SHARE_in_Austin/S2873JE162652.pdf
Of course, I hate to see anyone move backward. But the z/OS software
level is not an obstacle to doing so, though if one has taken advantage
of new hardware-dependent functions it would be necessary to
"un-exploit" them.
<snip>
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John Eells
z/OS Technical Marketing
IBM Poughkeepsie
ee...@us.ibm.com
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