I feel nostalgic after I read your post. Get this, I started in 1978 and I
worked on an OS/360. I was an IMS DB/DC tech. running batch (via BMP) and
batch jobs which updated the database. One problem I often encountered - the
IMS/DC would abend because log tapes (dual logging) due to a STC tape drive
(6250's) had a problem. IMS/DC had to stay down until I had to copied the log
tape to another because the EOF was not written. The phones would be ringing
off the hook because IMS/DC was down.
Those were the days.........amen.
On Monday, October 31, 2022 at 05:50:37 p.m. EDT, Gibney, Dave
<[email protected]> wrote:
I just shutdown our z/OS 2.3 system(s) for the last time.
When I came to school in 1976, the computer was described as "loosely coupled
370s". My exposure was via remote cardreader/printer.
When I started working here in 1981, there were still folks that had rewired
boards for what they had before that.
End of 2019, we moved from a 10 year old z9 to MFaaS with FNTS in Omaha.
Dave Gibney
Information Technology Services
Washington State University
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