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Legal Notice, Trademark Fair Use & Terms of Service

Last Updated: September 2026 • Governed under the Laws of India and International IP Treaties

Independent Engineering & Consulting Disclosure: StackMF Technologies LLP is an independent software engineering and modernization consulting entity. We are not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by, or certified by International Business Machines Corporation (IBM), Broadcom Inc., CA Technologies, BMC Software Inc., Stonebranch Inc., or Rocket Software Inc. All technical consulting, migration programs, and diagnostic runbooks are produced independently.

01. Nominative Fair Use & Trademark Attribution

All product names, logos, trademarks, and registered trademarks appearing on this website and within its technical runbooks are property of their respective owners in the United States, India, and other countries. Use of these names, marks, and brands on stackmf.com does not imply any affiliation, sponsorship, or endorsement.

Such marks are utilized strictly under the Nominative Fair Use Doctrine pursuant to the United States Lanham Act (15 U.S.C. § 1125), Section 30 of the Indian Trade Marks Act, 1999, and the laws of other relevant jurisdictions, specifically:

  • IBM, z/OS, CICS, Db2, IMS, RACF, z16, z15, IDz (IBM Developer for z/OS): Registered trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation.
  • Broadcom, CA-7, Endevor, File-AID, File Master, CA-Sysview, CA-Datacom, CA-IDMS, NetMaster, Easytrieve: Registered trademarks of Broadcom Inc. and/or its subsidiaries (including CA Technologies).
  • Control-M: Registered trademark of BMC Software, Inc.
  • Stonebranch, Universal Automation Center (UAC): Registered trademarks of Stonebranch Inc.
  • ChangeMan ZMF: Registered trademark of Rocket Software, Inc. (formerly Micro Focus).
  • Zowe: An open-source project hosted by the Open Mainframe Project and the Linux Foundation.

All references to these marks serve purely descriptive and nominative purposes: specifically to communicate technological compatibility, operational migration pathways, legacy interoperability, and diagnostic resolution of error codes.

02. Technical Runbook "AS IS" Warranty & Diagnostic Disclaimer

The technical runbooks, troubleshooting guides, code snippets, JCL scripts, REXX procedures, and architectural recommendations published on this website and under the /blog/ knowledge base are provided for educational, architectural, and diagnostic reference purposes only.

DISCLAIMER OF ALL WARRANTIES: ALL TECHNICAL GUIDANCE AND CODE EXAMPLES ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, SYSTEM INTEGRATION, OR NON-INFRINGEMENT.

Mainframe operating systems (IBM z/OS), subsystem managers (CICS, Db2, IMS), and workload schedulers govern mission-critical enterprise workloads. StackMF Technologies LLP explicitly advises that all code modifications, dataset reorganizations, compiler options, and system parameter modifications be rigorously verified in non-production development and staging sysplexes prior to implementation in live production environments.

Under no circumstances shall StackMF Technologies LLP, its partners, founders, or engineers be held liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special, exemplary, or consequential damages (including, but not limited to, procurement of substitute goods or services, loss of use, data, or profits, business interruption, or system downtime) however caused and on any theory of liability arising in any way out of the use of these materials.

03. Comparative Claims, Cost Modeling & Non-Disparagement

All statements regarding third-party software licensing fees, renewal price escalation, migration timelines, and prospective percentage savings (e.g., "save up to 60%") are based on independent industry surveys, published enterprise case studies, and third-party customer renewal benchmarks reported across the enterprise IT ecosystem.

Such statements are intended solely for analytical TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) comparison and architectural planning. They do not constitute factual guarantees, direct representations, or disparagement of any vendor's commercial practices. Actual licensing costs, discount tiers, and migration ROI depend on an enterprise's contractual terms, licensed product footprint, and workload volume.

04. Originality, Clean-Room Code & Intellectual Property

All diagnostic routines, sample programs, and schema architectures authored on this site are original works created by StackMF Technologies LLP through clean-room development standards. No proprietary source code, licensed internal code (LIC), trade secrets, or confidential customer artifacts are hosted or disclosed.

All sample datasets, account identifiers, dataset names, and transactional payloads utilize RFC-compliant synthetic placeholders (e.g., CUSTOMER-FILE, ACC-0000, example.com).

05. Statutory Redressal Mechanism & Grievance Officer

In accordance with Section 79 of the Indian Information Technology Act, 2000, and the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021, as well as the United States Digital Millennium Copyright Act (17 U.S.C. § 512), any inquiries, notices of alleged intellectual property infringement, or trademark concerns may be directed to our designated compliance contact:

Grievance & IP Compliance Office:
Entity: StackMF Technologies LLP
Designated Officer: Legal & Grievance Redressal Officer
Email: legal@stackmf.com (cc: contact@stackmf.com)
Jurisdiction / Seat: Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India
Statutory Response Window: Acknowledged within 24 hours; resolved within 15 business days.