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Appendix D. Special Notices
This publication is intended to help customers and IBM technical personnel to
migrate from VSE to OS/390.
The information in this publication is not intended as the specification of any
programming interfaces that are provided by VSE or OS/390. See the
PUBLICATIONS section of the IBM Programming Announcement for VSE/ESA
and OS/390 for more information about what publications are considered to be
product documentation.
References in this publication to IBM products, programs or services do not
imply that IBM intends to make these available in all countries in which IBM
operates. Any reference to an IBM product, program, or service is not intended
to state or imply that only IBM
s product, program, or service may be used. Any
functionally equivalent program that does not infringe any of IBM
s intellectual
property rights may be used instead of the IBM product, program or service.
Information in this book was developed in conjunction with use of the equipment
specified, and is limited in application to those specific hardware and software
products and levels.
IBM may have patents or pending patent applications covering subject matter in
this document. The furnishing of this document does not give you any license to
these patents. You can send license inquiries, in writing, to the IBM Director of
Licensing, IBM Corporation, North Castle Drive, Armonk, NY 10504-1785.
Licensees of this program who wish to have information about it for the purpose
of enabling: (i) the exchange of information between independently created
programs and other programs (including this one) and (ii) the mutual use of the
information which has been exchanged, should contact IBM Corporation, Dept.
600A, Mail Drop 1329, Somers, NY 10589 USA.
Such information may be available, subject to appropriate terms and conditions,
including in some cases, payment of a fee.
The information contained in this document has not been submitted to any
formal IBM test and is distributed AS IS. The information about non-IBM
(
vendor
″) 
products in this manual has been supplied by the vendor and IBM
assumes no responsibility for its accuracy or completeness. The use of this
information or the implementation of any of these techniques is a customer
responsibility and depends on the customer
s ability to evaluate and integrate
them into the customer
s operational environment. While each item may have
been reviewed by IBM for accuracy in a specific situation, there is no guarantee
that the same or similar results will be obtained elsewhere. Customers
attempting to adapt these techniques to their own environments do so at their
own risk.
Any pointers in this publication to external Web sites are provided for
convenience only and do not in any manner serve as an endorsement of these
Web sites.
Reference to PTF numbers that have not been released through the normal
distribution process does not imply general availability. The purpose of
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