Re: Why major financial institutions are growing their use of mainframes

In 55818f2f.8050...@vse2pdf.com, on 06/17/2015 at 11:15 AM, Tony Thigpen t...@vse2pdf.com said: Good story, but my BS meter is pegged on this one. Change a mainframe to mainframes and I'm prepared to believe it. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see

Re: Why major financial institutions are growing their use of mainframes

Maybe 'without any UNSCHEDULED outages'. Your meter is not well calibrated. :-) For example, are you familiar with the Visa card in your wallet? :-) Timothy Sipples IT Architect Executive,

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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

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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

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marktre...@gmail.com (Mark Regan) writes: I recently learned about a bank in Japan that has been using a mainframe since the 1970's without a single second of downtime. Its architecture allows for full software and hardware upgrades without an outage. i periodically mention that my wife had

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Mark Regan wrote: http://www.networkworld.com/article/2916081/network-management/big-iron-and-banking-why-all-major-banks-rely-on-mainframes-and-are-growing-their-use-of-mainframes.html Hmmm, Interesting, but that article forgot point 6 - I fill it in for you: It is 'greener' and 'cheaper' to

Why major financial institutions are growing their use of mainframes

http://www.networkworld.com/article/2916081/network-management/big-iron-and-banking-why-all-major-banks-rely-on-mainframes-and-are-growing-their-use-of-mainframes.html One item I noted in this article: I recently learned about a bank in Japan that has been using a mainframe since the 1970's

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You should post a comment to his blog about that missing point. Mark T. Regan, K8MTR CTO1, USNR-Retired 1969-1991 On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 10:25 AM, Elardus Engelbrecht elardus.engelbre...@sita.co.za wrote: Mark Regan wrote:

Re: Why major financial institutions are growing their use of mainframes

I recently learned about a bank in Japan that has been using a mainframe since the 1970's without a single second of downtime. Its architecture allows for full software and hardware upgrades without an outage. Good story, but my BS meter is pegged on this one. Maybe 'without any UNSCHEDULED

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I added the comment made by Elardus to the post... *George Rodriguez* *Specialist II - IT Solutions* *IT Enterprise Applications* *PX - 47652* *(561) 357-7652 (office)* *(954) 415-7586 (mobile)* *School District of Palm Beach County* *3348 Forest Hill Blvd.* *Room B-251* *West Palm Beach, FL.

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George Rodriguez wrote: I added the comment made by Elardus to the post... Thanks for helping out. I tried to add the comment as 'ordered' ;-D by Mark Regan, but could not. Thanks again. Groete / Greetings Elardus Engelbrecht

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