I suspect ITIL (cert org?) refers to mainframes by their proper nomenclature as designated by the manufacturer and ditto it's OS. To me, "mainframe" is synonymous with IBM for both manufacturer and OS, but Unisys uses the term mainframe as well. No doubt people here will like to be exact with the OS name right down to the version number, but MVS still works for me. However, it been a long time since I got the ITIL cert and don't remember it having squat to do with a mainframe.
My favorite term for the "mainframe organization" was just plain "data center" or DPC, for "data processing center". we had a helluva softball team, regularly beat up on those college kids in programming, and had some serious brawls with the team from building mntce/mailroom... :) --- On Wed, 1/11/12, MainframeJunkie <themeddl...@hotmail.com> wrote: > From: MainframeJunkie <themeddl...@hotmail.com> > Subject: ITIL Mainframe Terminology > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > Date: Wednesday, January 11, 2012, 12:18 PM > I have been asked what the common > ITIL term in the industry is for "Mainframe". Basically, > these are the questions: > > 1) What term is used for the Mainframe System itself? > 2) What are the common names of the Mainframe Organizations > in the industry? The larger organization as a whole and not > the individual departments. > > I have little experience with ITIL, so hopefully I phrased > this question properly. Thank you in advance for the > assistance. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access > instructions, > send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu > with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
