I would love to get a few Doge people into a room, people who are
supposedly knowledgeable about computer architecture. And be able
to have about 5 minutes of their time.
Some years ago I drew on a serviette in a cafeteria some years
two conceptual diagrams for two computer types being used at a
place where they were migrating off their mainframe. I didn't
tell them which one was an AIX box and which one that was running
z/OS. I just drew the two conceptual diagrams.
I asked after pointing out the bus structures and widths, along
with clock speeds: which of these do you want your biz running
on? You know what they pointed to.
So I asked them why are you migrating off of it?
The person I showed this to stopped calling me a mainframe bigot.
I find that most of the people that work on server boxes really
don't know the underlying architecture. As a result, they do not
know just how modern the z/arch machine(s) is(are).
Steve Thompson
On 3/26/2025 12:16 PM, Jon Perryman wrote:
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.
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