John - that is true BUT in this case 2.2 is the last release that will run on a z10 so one would hope that it would remain around and available a bit longer.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------- Lionel B. Dyck (Contractor) <sdg>< Mainframe Systems Programmer – RavenTek Solution Partners -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of John Eells Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2018 11:24 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: z/OS 2.2 - how to order ? Dyck, Lionel B. , RavenTek wrote: > We are trying to order z/OS 2.2 but ShopZ won't let us as 2.2 is no longer > orderable. We have two z10's that will never run z/OS 2.3 and which are > currently z/OS 2.1 (don't ask). We could use our current z/OS 2.2 system but > it has a number of usermods, and products, that are not needed for those > boxes so we would like to order a clean z/OS 2.2 set of media. > > Any suggestions? > > This is just another example of IBM removing something that should have left > alone - just like the z/OS 2.1 documentation that now seems semi-fixed. Except for fairly short periods of overlap, we have *always* withdrawn the prior operating system release when we make the new release available, going back as far as I can recall. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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