I remember when “experts” were touting SAP, Powerbuilder, and others while other/same “experts” were saying the mainframe was going to be obsolete by 2000. 2 decades later, it’s still going strong with no end in sight. Those software du jour aren’t likely to replace it.
Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone On Thursday, October 21, 2021, 8:51 PM, David Crayford <[email protected]> wrote: I think "Mainframe Modernization" is an umbrella term that can be used to describe many different things. That may be new UIs or application modernization such as adding a REST API to a legacy application. IBM are doing a great job adding modern languages to z/OS that have features traditional mainframe languages like COBOL lack. I'm currently working on a product that takes monitoring data from legacy products and streams it to analytics platforms such as Elastic, Splunk or publises metrics for Prometheus/Grafana. Customers already use these platforms for their distributed applications which interact with the mainframe and it's important for them to see the entire stack using modern solutions. I don't consider 'cloud' or 'devops' to be BS. Devops has transformed the way we work. We use Git, Jira, Bitbucket, Jenkins, Artifactory etc. When we merge a branch in Git it fires off an automated Jenkins build that can package our product and run tests. The old way of doing things manually using batch jobs was error prone and tedious. WRT cloud, I can stand up a personal development z/OS VM using Ansible Tower in less than 2 minutes. I can do that from a web UI or by calling a REST API. On the distributed side I'm a big fan of orchestration technologies such a Kubernetes. I run a single command to stand up a cluster of VMs to deploy a software stack for testing. On 21/10/2021 6:50 am, David Elliot 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 [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
