Or just order a ServerPac with just Cobol 4.2 in it before it gets withdrawn and stick it in a separate SMP environment.
-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of John McKown Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2017 9:00 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: [IBM-MAIN] some software withdrawal from marketing announcements (to me) On Wed, Dec 6, 2017 at 6:24 AM, Tom Marchant < 0000000a2a8c2020-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > On Tue, 5 Dec 2017 19:48:30 -0600, John McKown wrote: > > >On Tue, Dec 5, 2017 at 4:03 PM, Pommier, Rex wrote: > > > >>So this simply means we won't be able to order them any more, correct? > IBM > >>will still fix bugs and support the products for the foreseeable future. > >> > > > >Right. It is a kind of warning to be sure to make some very secure > >back ups of the products because you won't be able to re-order them > >should they somehow "disappear". > > And you won't be able to order them with a z/OS upgrade after they are > withdrawn, so you will have to use another method to get them included > on your new system. > I don't remember what all I did for one such product, but I basically used a BUILDMCS command such that I could put all the SMPE data into a separate CSI. > > -- > Tom Marchant > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
