Love the stories, I graduated from Vo-tech as an RPG / COBOL programmer
thinking I'd get a job easy as a programmer, not so, but a good learning
experience as an operator they to production control, to now a sysprog.
I started in 1977 working for a large retailer, no IMS but CICS , SII
(Senden) or as I think it morphed into, connect direct and D3 (DataLink)
to poll the stores for cash register data and send markdown and
inventory data to the stores after that data was processed.
loved 3rd shift at the time.
As an operator if Senden came down we had a blue light that would come
on in the computer room, blue light special, Monday early AM before the
stores opened was the time to re calibrate the automated voice response
system (Wavetech) system for the stores.
so many stories good and bad.
Carmen
On 11/1/2022 12:35 PM, willie bunter wrote:
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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