On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 12:31 PM, McKown, John < john.mck...@healthmarkets.com> wrote:
> Depends. What are they running? How do they measure "up time"? We are still > stuck in the 1970s for all intents and purposes. We run CICS with VSAM. No > RDMS. No Websphere. 100% COBOL. We do run some 3270 "screen scraping" and > even have a few CICS web like transactions via HTTP. But we have a lot of > night down-time for running batch reports and updates against the CICS VSAM > files. This is on CICS/TS 3.2, z/OS 1.10, and a z9BC. Our legacy > applications are old, old, old. > <http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html> > I laughingly refer to this as "running in 1985 compatibility mode" and pretty much all but the top tier of customers still run that way. There's a huge gulf between what the platform is capable of and what people actually do with it. -- This email might be from the artist formerly known as CC (or not) You be the judge. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
