Brian, Concerning small environments, does having z/OS (and z/OS V2.5) available to all participating ISVs count as part of our early programs? Whereby they could use z/OS V2.5 and z/OSMF in their own environment, or use it as a z/VM guest? Does it count that these same ISVs, who can run in their own very small environments on their own purchased HW, have had z/OSMF for quite a while and we've delivered PTFs to help with the performance in those environments because of their z/OSMF feedback? Does it count that any early customer in the z/OS V2.5 release program can and do have small sandbox systems, on which they perform their installation and service work? Does having the function testing for z/OS V2.5 across all the z/OS Development labs as z/VM guests count, with these environments sometimes being smaller than a zPDT?
I do understand that you are unhappy with the choice of using z/OSMF for z/OS V2.5 after Jan 2022. I'm not sure there's anymore I can offer. We have been moving in this direction for a very long time. -Marna WALLE z/OS System Installation and Upgrade IBM Poughkeepsie ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
