I was talking to some of our new hires the other day and none of them had heard of SNA, APPLIDs or VTAM. I prefer to think of this as the evolution of the mainframe continuing to preserve investment over time :)
Still, cloud continues to try and replicate the scalability of Sysplex and TCPIP is a significant barrier so consider it more of a port of entry and not the whole story. Matt Hogstrom PGP key 0F143BC1 > On Jan 11, 2020, at 15:53, z/OS scheduler <[email protected]> wrote: > > Welll, in my opinion the mainframe died when IBM allowed tcpip on their > servers. From that point onwards it just became another server that could > be hacked via TCPIP ports. > > James O'Leary > > Op vr 10 jan. 2020 om 21:05 schreef Steve Smith <[email protected]>: > >> Well, it is Friday: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0-pLcgq-2M >> >> It's also about a bank :-) >> >> -- >> sas >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> 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
