What Z cloud offering? I see them categorizing CICS revenue as "cloud". Not aware of a real Z cloud offering?
On Thu, Dec 9, 2021 at 10:40 PM Clark Morris < [email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, 9 Dec 2021 10:55:08 -0800, Ed Jaffe > <[email protected]> wrote: > > >On 12/8/2021 5:40 AM, Doug wrote: > >> I have watched this thread, and there is simply one thing most of us > >> are missing. > >> This is a MF forum. For years, we have been subjected to "oh using the > >> (insert new technology) is so much better than these old obsolete > >> mainframes." And we have universally warned not to drink the Kool-Aid. > >> > >> So excuse us a bit of satisfaction when the one of these "master of > >> the universe" technologies has a problem that renders it mortal, like > >> these old, obsolete mainframes. > > > >Absolutely justifiable, especially when the platform being derided has > >*explicitly* positioned themselves as your MORTAL ENEMY: > > How reliable is IBM's z related cloud offering? > > How many of the mainframe shops are in practice old and obsolete due > to management policy? How many shops have COBOL coding standards last > updated with either COBOL 68 (ANS COBOL) or COBOL 74 (COBOL VS)? > > In my opinion one of the greater risks of the cloud is that the > appropriate national government may compel the provider be it AWS, > IBM, Microsoft, etc. to give said government access to an > organization's data without notifying the organization. I think I > read somewhere that the US Patriot act may authorize this and I > believe that this is probably not unique to the United States. > > > >https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/cloud/aws-out-kill-mainframes > > Clark Morris > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- zMan -- "I've got a mainframe and I'm not afraid to use it" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
