Someone (other than me) should bitch and moan loudly (that is, those to
whom manglement would actually LISTEN) over the demise of such device
types as 3370 and 9336.
The future (and the past ... THREE DECADES) is Fixed Block. And yet
we're still saddled with a nucleus that chokes on such technology.
The trouble with IBM is that they don't simply drop support for these
things. More often they actually BREAK shit. I'm not aware of any other
vendor (oh ... Red Hat ... but, oh ... now the red part of Big Blue)
that actually BREAKS shit. I could cite when RH did so ... long ago in a
galaxy far away ... but not far enough.
On 7/28/26 3:09 PM, Steve Beaver wrote:
https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/announcements/statements-direction-zos-2026-07-2
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