Wednesday, June 6, 2007

Software withdrawal IBM System z Products

Yesterday IBM announced a list of products that will be withdrawn from marketing (WDFM).
Regarding the operating systems z/VSE 3.1 will be WDFM on May 31, 2008. But perhaps more important : z/OS.e 1.8 - as you know this is the last version of z/OS.e - will be WDFM October 22, 2007. If I'm not mistaken, that's about a month later than z/OS 1.8 itself. So what's the planning for z/OS.e ?
  • March 31, 2007 : Withdrawal from service of z/OS.e V1.4 and z/OS.e V1.5
  • September 30, 2007 : Withdrawal from service of z/OS.e V1.6
  • September, 2008 : Planned withdrawal from service of z/OS.e V1.7
  • September, 2009 : Intended withdrawal from service of z/OS.e V1.8
As we all know, time flies by : so there's about 2 years left to transfer to zNALC pricing.

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