> -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jousma, David > Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2008 7:56 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: crazy thoughts - keeping product installation infomation > > I'm surprised Rob Schramm has not replied to this topic, as > he is a big > proponent of Wiki on mainframe. > > We run Wiki on the mainframe to store all of our doc. Since we are a > multi-image shop we move the wiki around, so that it is always > available. I imagine if you were a single image shop, that > availability > could be an issue. > > Wiki on mainframe works really nice, is completely > searchable, and easy > to maintain. Best of all it showcases some of the "new" > things the old > mainframe can do. > > _______________________________________________________ > > Dave Jousma
I've looked at JSPWiki. But the argument against using the mainframe is basically that we are "maxed out" and don't want to use "expensive cycles" for such things. I'm am slowly, slowly, showing off a few, very minor and small Web based applications that are z/OS hosted. One is our RACF administration, which I modelled on a TSO program. The other is my "dataset list" function. Both of these so that the user doesn't need to log on to TSO for a "quick and dirty" function. Oh, and my pushing for a zAAP to run Java is shot down because: (1) it costs money; (2) the mainframe is going away; (3) we don't run Java on the mainframe. My contention that if we had a zAAP we could write Java code to run on the mainframe usually gets the response of "the programmers know COBOL, not Java." But it basically goes back to reason #2. Mangement is convinced that eliminating the mainframe for <insert platform here: Windows, AS/400, AIX> is the Holy Grail and has for the last 3 administrations. -- John McKown Senior Systems Programmer HealthMarkets Keeping the Promise of Affordable Coverage Administrative Services Group Information Technology The information contained in this e-mail message may be privileged and/or confidential. It is for intended addressee(s) only. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, reproduction, distribution or other use of this communication is strictly prohibited and could, in certain circumstances, be a criminal offense. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender by reply and delete this message without copying or disclosing it. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
