Edward Jaffe writes:
This reminds me of a Chris Craddock pet peeve -- the kind you cannot
escape hearing given
enough time and beer -- about modern mainframes and their operating
systems having unique
and spectacular capabilities that their users just obstinately refuse to
exploit!
Indeed! But even their unspectacular capabilities are systematically
ignored.
For my sins---At my age are they are all, unfortunately, banal---I have just
found myself reviewing a set of poorly performing COBOL CICS APs.
Introducing the use of pointers, local (LIFO) storage, and the like halved
their resource usage; but my point was acknowledged but not taken. The shop
in question will all but certainly go right on doing things as it has done
them for decades until, shortly, it it is put out of business.
Perhaps the principal threat to the survival of mainframes is little talked
about: It is that mainframe applications are, most of them, implemented
gratuitously using circa-1970 (applications) technology.
John Gilmore
Ashland, MA 01721-1817
USA
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