For a long time, every State Farm office had an 'unattended VSE' system
running on a PC370/PC390. They were pulled out late '80s / early '90s.
I remember when the number of installed VSE sites took a nose-dive due
to these removals. There was a lot of 'neat' things removed from VSE
afterwards.
Tony Thigpen
Bob Bridges wrote on 8/14/23 2:24 PM:
I had an abbreviated contract at State Farm in [checks his records] the spring
of 2006; they hired me as a RACF analyst, so I was all TSO there. No idea
about other platforms. I just remember boggling at them having more than a
hundred LPARs and I forget how many hard-drive units.
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State Farm is one of the biggest install bases that I'm aware of. But I
question how many (emulated) terminals were actually connected to the mainframe.
I know that in the late '80s / early '90s State Farm had dumb terminals on many
people's desks. But there were also a lot of PCs running terminal emulation.
What I don't know is how many of those terminals were logged into the mainframe
vs an AS/400.
I have a family member who was my visibility into the State Farm Regional
Offices in the '80s and '90s before becoming an agent in the late '90s / early
'00s.
I know for a fact that in their office as an agent that their dumb terminals
and terminal emulators were connected to the in office AS/400 and that they
could do much of, if not all of, the day to day things on the AS/400 even if
the WAN connection to the mainframe in the R.O. was disconnected. They would
run into problems if the link to the R.O. was down overnight as part of batched
operations. But day to day things worked perfectly fine disconnected from the
R.O.
I would consider these users to be logged into the local AS/400 and /not/
logged into the mainframe.
Similarly, it's my understanding that State Farm has rows of AS/400s in the
R.O. that were used to front end the terminals in the R.O.
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