Re: Systems with missing source code

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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

-------------- Original message -------------- 
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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