Re: Systems with missing source code

Keith

This is NOT a boon for software providers. As a developer at one who has been the one doing the validation, it does not help us at all. Your comment seems to contain a bit of cynicism about how vendors treat customers - hope I'm not reading something in that is not there. Certainly there seem to be some that leverage this kind of thing in a way that hurts customers. I sincerely believe that we do not do that.

And having 25-30 products to validate is not my idea of a good time! You can see a link to our V6R1 preparedness page on the midrange wiki.

Regards
Vern

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From: Keith Carpenter <entropypool@xxxxxxxxx>

James Lampert wrote:

Keith Carpenter wrote:

Personally, I'm disappointed IBM has not maintained better backward
compatibility with V6R1. It's certainly a boon for software
providers.

The Hell it is. Speaking as a software provider, it's at least as big of
a pain in the butt for us as it is for end-users.

James,

For most software, V6R1 is a matter of re-translating the programs
either by recompiling source or conversion of observable programs.

You may be in a unique position supporting a mostly MI written
application which may not always use IBM supported APIs. Having worked
with MI myself, I don't need to tell you unsupported interfaces makes
each new OS release a risk in itself. Even more difficult when you try
to support it using only the old hardware you have.

I don't know what V6R1 problems you may be encountering, but your prior
posts indicated you were mostly concerned with distributing observable
code (a decompilation risk).


Keith

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