Yep, my very first gig when I went into contracting: The client (an insurance company in Baltimore, now defunct I've heard) got mad at CA's predatory pricing and decided to dump ~all~ their products in favor of various competitors: tape management, scheduling, report archiving et al. My part was to crack the manuals on all the new products and figure out what rules (in ACF2, this was) would be required to make the new products act approximately like the old.
I heard later that six months after I finished, they kissed and made up. Sounds like a lot of wasted money to me. --- Bob Bridges, robhbrid...@gmail.com, cell 336 382-7313 /* When you want to test a stream's depth, don't use both feet. -Chinese proverb */ -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of Allan Staller Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2023 08:09 That is not an option I would undertake. Last I heard both Panvalet and Endeavour are both CA (Compuware) which is what prompted the bill, And the question in this thread. My opinion is that BMC is behaving like the CA of the late 80's, early 90's. How many installations decided to dump CA at that time? My USD $0.02 worth. -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of Attila Fogarasi Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2023 4:07 AM Your other option is to convert Panvalet to Endevor (easy to do as Endevor supports the 10 character names that Panvalet has). Either way it wll be much cheaper than BMC. --- On Tue, Oct 24, 2023 at 2:15 PM Brian Westerman < brian_wester...@syzygyinc.com> wrote: > Does IBM file Manager let you access (i.e. browse) Panvalet datasets > like the old Compuware File-aid product? One of our clients is > getting a huge bill from BMC (they bought Compuware), and they are > thinking about replacing File-Aid with IBM File Manager. One of the > things they use File-Aid for is to read Panvalet (they don't have the > panvalet ISPF panel option). I jsut want to make sure that File > Manager has no issues with reading the panvalet datasets similar to how > file-aid does it. > > I have File-Manager here, but I don't have Panvalet so I can't tell if > they are compatible. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
