Jesse Robinson wrote "supplying the entire OS on a chip" I heard a similar statement delivered by the Late Great Bob Yelevich in the early 1990s. He suggested that CICS would be delivered on a Board, or possibly a component/domain would be delivered on a board. . . As a contractor I have experienced the neglect in Installations, when Qualified Systems Programmers are not employed. I was in one installation where I inherited well over one hundred outstanding issues, Abends, Storage Violations, back level maintenance.
---------- Original Message ---------- From: Jesse 1 Robinson <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Eliminating the systems programmer was Re: IBM cuts contractor billing by 15 percent (our else) Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2017 17:30:24 +0000 Some time ago an idea floated through my field of vision that IBM would eliminate even software distribution by supplying the entire OS on a chip. I must have missed the GA announcement... . . J.O.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 323-715-0595 Mobile 626-543-6132 Office �=== NEW [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Friday, June 23, 2017 8:32 AM To: [email protected] Subject: (External):Re: Eliminating the systems programmer was Re: IBM cuts contractor billing by 15 percent (our else) On Fri, 23 Jun 2017 09:15:21 -0400, Mark Pace wrote: >I am afraid this new "Continuous Update" may lead to the same thing. > >On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 6:41 AM, Bill Wilkie wrote: > >> As I am reading this, all I can think of is Windows 10 and Automatic >> updates. Since accidentally going to Windows 10, I have crashed my >> laptop at least 10 times and spent many days and a lot of money trying to >> recover. >> Be careful what you wish for. >> I've had remarkably little difficulty, none that I recall, with updates to Linux systems, Intel and ARM. I do these electively, not automatically, but I don't age them; I risk being an early adopter. But my personal Linux systems can't be considered enterprise-critical. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
