On Wed, 27 Feb 2019 20:43:17 +0000, Knutson, Samuel wrote:
>Do you the think the z/OS overall ecosystem and the platform is made stronger
>or weaker by getting to one JES?
>
>I think that for a core part of the mainframe platform rationalizing to a
>single standard configuration of the OS from two options makes it more
>sustainable. Vendors and IBM can avoid duplicate investments and customers
>can better rely on pervasive support by software and an increase in the
>available supply of skills to operate their systems. In my opinion IBM should
>have made this definitive choice sooner this amounts to acceptance of
>prevailing trends.
>
Stronger, but with the caveat that if the consolidated product provides for
either
JES2-like or JES3-like behavior at the option of the site or of the individual
user
the burden on vendors remains.
https://www.ted.com/talks/barry_schwartz_on_the_paradox_of_choice?language=en
-- gil
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