Have the various issues holding up the next release of tk4 been resolved
yet? Is there any possibility of a Christmas present of a new tk4 this
year?
Hi All
sorry for the delay with releasing TK4- Update 09.
The major issue holding the release up is the current state of SDL Hyperion, which will be the engine running TK4- Update 09. Although the MVS 3.8j component of TK4- does not require modern z/Arch features, it is out of question to publish a TK4- release based on a Hyperion version that doesn't support key features required by the modern counterpart of MVS 3.8j. This simply because I know, that there are many people out there, running just that inside of TK4- instead of the MVS 3.8j it comes with. The main missing/instable feature is the transactional execution facility, as Fish described in this post:?.
I'm doing the utmost to help the Hercules developers community (which I'm part of) with straightening that implementation, But this really is a _very_ complex feature that, when done wrong, will inevitably lead to instability, miserable performance and data integrity issues when running an OS requiring that facility. So, bear with me (us), we really don't have reached a state yet in which it can be released.
Christmas present? Well, probably not: Once SDL Hyperion 4.3 is released, I'll require some 6 weeks to get TK4- out. So, clearly, this cannot be done before Christmas. Sorry again :-(
Cheers
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