Actually, I can envision mainframe properly done such that there are no outages perceivable toe the ordinary user of the services.
On the otherhand, even when we were on a 3090 or before with real disk and tape, I would have never dares ask for as much routine scheduled outage as the "better" outsourced application running on OracleOnDemand. 6 to 8 hours most weekends. > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Shane Ginnane > Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2015 4:29 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Why major financial institutions are growing their use of > mainframes > > On Wed, 17 Jun 2015 11:15:59 -0400, Tony Thigpen wrote: > > >Good story, but my BS meter is pegged on this one. > > And not just on that bullet point. > The big banks are moving off-host here. I just got locked out of internet > access > to my business account because my bank is in the process of moving to a new > core system that was outsourced to Oracle in India. > A few weeks before end of financial year (June 30 here) .... :( What a bunch > of dorks. > > Shane ... > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
