>>From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On >>Behalf Of Jousma, David >>“news” still uses the codeword of 30-year old technology to mean the >>mainframe systems there, and the code they run.
> On Fri, 21 Mar 2025 13:48:30 -0500, Steve Beaver <[email protected]> > wrote: >The ISSUERS of W2, 1099's, K1's to what is reported by the filer. That is >just the first step/system >The DB2 table spaces are beyond huge OMG, basic computer skills no longer exist even in the mainframe. LOL, in saying IRS modernization written in JAVA using huge relational databases. Designing software that assumes it will eventually move to non-IBM platforms that is doomed to be unacceptable when it is attempted. Government waste is horrifying! It's time to debunk the lies that Linux developers tell us and themselves about the mainframe and Linux because they refuse to understand the virtues of the mainframe. There are so many lies to be debunked that I'll discuss each in separate threads. I'll limit the discussions to simple concepts because complicated computer concepts are outside the Linux developer's skillset. Consider the IRS modernization driven by Linux/Unix developers where they falsely believe it is 30-year old technology. Why would you ever put W2's, 1099's & K1's in relational tables (DB2 in this case) when VSAM is available and many times faster. A few extra lines of code that is many times more efficient that works at the record level versus Java JDBC that works at the field level, transmits through TCP and other design flaws. Those flaws will be unacceptable when using non-mainframe hardware. A quarter century of Linux on Z and people still don't understand that Linux is Broken As Designed (BAD). Motivated reasoning has them ignoring the facts about Linux, C and the computer industry as a whole because they need to justify their false beliefs. Google with its 5,000,000 servers (none IBM z) doesn't understand the genius behind IBM mainframes. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
