Re: More "ageing mainframe" (bad) press.

2015-10-22 Thread Clark Morris
On 30 Sep 2015 03:07:25 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: >On 30/09/2015 4:37 PM, Shane Ginnane wrote: >> On Wed, 30 Sep 2015 15:31:13 +0800, David Crayford >> wrote: >> >>> CentreLink is a 26,000 MIP customer >>>

Re: More "ageing mainframe" (bad) press.

2015-10-22 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Thu, 22 Oct 2015 21:07:46 -0300, Clark Morris wrote: > >The EBCDIIC ASCII problem is another issue. ... > IBM should recognize this problem and complete the enhanced ASCII support in the xlc runtime. It seems pretty much there in the preprocessor and the compiler. -- gil

Re: More "ageing mainframe" (bad) press.

2015-10-22 Thread David Crayford
On 23/10/2015 9:31 AM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: On Thu, 22 Oct 2015 21:07:46 -0300, Clark Morris wrote: The EBCDIIC ASCII problem is another issue. ... IBM should recognize this problem and complete the enhanced ASCII support in the xlc runtime. It seems pretty much there in the preprocessor

Re: More "ageing mainframe" (bad) press.

2015-09-30 Thread Shane Ginnane
On Wed, 30 Sep 2015 15:31:13 +0800, David Crayford wrote: >CentreLink is a 26,000 MIP customer >http://www.techworld.com.au/article/303153/centrelink_ups_it_reform_keeps_model_204_legacy_/?pp=2. >Phew, that's going to be a big blow for big blue when they move off. Nope. At

Re: More "ageing mainframe" (bad) press.

2015-09-30 Thread David Crayford
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: More "ageing mainframe" (bad) press. http://www.itnews.com.au/news/the-top-five-green-screen-systems-that-run-australia-409614 Some large (by Aussie standards) mainframe customers that may be no more in the foreseeable futu

Re: More "ageing mainframe" (bad) press.

2015-09-30 Thread David Crayford
On 30/09/2015 4:37 PM, Shane Ginnane wrote: On Wed, 30 Sep 2015 15:31:13 +0800, David Crayford wrote: CentreLink is a 26,000 MIP customer http://www.techworld.com.au/article/303153/centrelink_ups_it_reform_keeps_model_204_legacy_/?pp=2. Phew, that's going to be a big blow

Re: More "ageing mainframe" (bad) press.

2015-09-28 Thread Walter Davies
anadian Depository and Clearing Corporation > > To name but 3. > > - > -teD > - > Original Message > From: Anthony Thompson > Sent: Sunday, September 27, 2015 02:48 > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Reply To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > Subject: Re

Re: More "ageing mainframe" (bad) press.

2015-09-27 Thread Ted MacNEIL
: More "ageing mainframe" (bad) press. The big one in that is the Australian Federal Government's CentreLink. They are attempting to replace a mainframe-based solution with a SAP solution. The then Federal Treasurer, the esteemed Mr. Joe Hocking (now out on his arse after we got a new Prim

Re: More "ageing mainframe" (bad) press.

2015-09-27 Thread Anne & Lynn Wheeler
vbc...@gmail.com (Vince Coen) writes: > I think the stats on migration failures show that many fail regardless > of the target migration mainly is that they over estimate project > time, and quality of the target systems being used in place of m/f. > > Taking a straight view the mainframe is slow

Re: More "ageing mainframe" (bad) press.

2015-09-27 Thread Vince Coen
I think the stats on migration failures show that many fail regardless of the target migration mainly is that they over estimate project time, and quality of the target systems being used in place of m/f. Taking a straight view the mainframe is slow compared to running on servers on a

Re: More "ageing mainframe" (bad) press.

2015-09-27 Thread Anthony Thompson
Ginnane Sent: Friday, 25 September 2015 7:39 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: More "ageing mainframe" (bad) press. http://www.itnews.com.au/news/the-top-five-green-screen-systems-that-run-australia-409614 Some large (by Aussie standards) mainframe customers that may

Re: More "ageing mainframe" (bad) press.

2015-09-25 Thread Barkow, Eileen
] On Behalf Of Shane Ginnane Sent: Friday, September 25, 2015 10:28 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: More "ageing mainframe" (bad) press. On Fri, 25 Sep 2015 08:00:37 -0600, Jack J. Woehr wrote: >Seems like actually only one of the apps actually going away, the rest bein

More "ageing mainframe" (bad) press.

2015-09-25 Thread Shane Ginnane
http://www.itnews.com.au/news/the-top-five-green-screen-systems-that-run-australia-409614 Some large (by Aussie standards) mainframe customers that may be no more in the foreseeable future. Shane ... -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe

Re: More "ageing mainframe" (bad) press.

2015-09-25 Thread Jack J. Woehr
Shane Ginnane wrote: http://www.itnews.com.au/news/the-top-five-green-screen-systems-that-run-australia-409614 Some large (by Aussie standards) mainframe customers that may be no more in the foreseeable future. Shane ... Seems like actually only one of the apps actually going away, the rest

Re: More "ageing mainframe" (bad) press.

2015-09-25 Thread Shane Ginnane
On Fri, 25 Sep 2015 08:00:37 -0600, Jack J. Woehr wrote: >Seems like actually only one of the apps actually going away, the rest being >Web front-ended, which is entirely appropriate. > >And as we all know, some of these conversions never succeed and they're forced >to drop back on maintaining