I do almost everything important via app with a mainframe on the back end. Banking, health records, retail shopping, insurance claims, investing. And with very high confidence the transactions are secure, fast, & always available. Not sure how more modern the mainframe could be actually. Bill J
Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone On Wednesday, October 20, 2021, 7:18 PM, Rich Smrcina <r...@velocitysoftware.com> wrote: That can certainly be part of it. But it can also mean providing applications (typically web based) with access to z/OS data, or interfaces. Whether that’s direct access to the data, or access through a REST type interface. That way the mainframe can retain it’s role as the system of record, and at the same time put a more modern face on the applications. Rich Smrcina > On Oct 20, 2021, at 6:08 PM, Mark Jacobs > <00000224d287a4b1-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > > I think it's related to the push for the z/OS Management Facility (z/OSMF) > and Zowe over traditional system administration and programming methods. > > Mark Jacobs > > Sent from ProtonMail, Swiss-based encrypted email. > > GPG Public Key - > https://api.protonmail.ch/pks/lookup?op=get&search=markjac...@protonmail.com > > ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ > > On Wednesday, October 20th, 2021 at 6:50 PM, David Elliot > <star2019...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Does anyone out there know what is meant by the expression "Mainframe >> >> Modernization' '? It seems to be catching on with the Bobs but when you >> >> ask exactly how they propose to modernize their systems all you get is >> >> silence. As in if you don"know we shouldn't even be talking about it. >> >> Any ideas ? Or is it just more BS like 'cloud' or 'devops'? >> >> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >> >> send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
