Other people break it? No, we break it all by ourselves! :) Yes, GA on 9/10, installed here (dev/test) on 9/19. So, it did officially exist :) Others here have one too ... It's running quite nicely. Marcy
________________________________ From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of David Boyes Sent: Friday, September 24, 2010 1:58 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: [IBMVM] Applying Maintenance - Best Practice Marcy is fortunate enough to work for a company that writes VERY large checks to IBM every year,and they're willing to let her deal with the fun of running early release software (and dealing with the near constant updates thereof as other people break it and Endicott fixes it). If you ever are involved in such a process, you'll never fear VMSES again. Buy enough IBM hardware and software, and you too will get offered previews of new hardware before it officially exists. -- db You are running z/VM 5.4 on z10 and z196 now? The z196 was announced last June and shipped only this month and you already have it up and running?