Wonderful article. As a retired mainframer I have always had faith in it. It will probably out-live me. I once heard the statistics that 85% of the world runs on the IBM mainframe. Go team!!!!
Mary Kay > On Jul 24, 2023, at 1:51 PM, Lionel B. Dyck <[email protected]> wrote: > > Wow - talk about scary - requires hundreds to thousands of support staff - > something the author harps on several times. > > > Lionel B. Dyck <>< > Website: https://www.lbdsoftware.com > Github: https://github.com/lbdyck > > “Worry more about your character than your reputation. Character is what you > are, reputation merely what others think you are.” - - - John Wooden > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of > Schmitt, Michael > Sent: Monday, July 24, 2023 11:43 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Ars Technica: The IBM mainframe: How it runs and why it survives > > Ars Technica published a deep-dive explainer of modern IBM mainframes: > > https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/07/the-ibm-mainframe-how-it-runs-and-why-it-survives/ > > > I’d quibble with the application server topic that talks about CICS with no > mention of IMS/TM. CICS is to IMS as Windows 3.1 is to Windows 10. 😊 > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
