Reasonable? People who weren’t aware of 5-9’s, who thought pharmacies weren’t open 24 hours a day. Silly you.
Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone On Thursday, October 21, 2021, 11:07 PM, Tom Brennan <t...@tombrennansoftware.com> wrote: And here I thought you could have a reasonable conversation about an important topic. Silly me. On 10/21/2021 7:59 PM, Bill Johnson wrote: > I don’t really care Tom. Any more than I cared in 1995 when people like you > told me the mainframe was going to be gone in 5 years and I better look for > my next profession. I’m not looking for agreement like most of you. > > > Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone > > > On Thursday, October 21, 2021, 10:50 PM, Tom Brennan > <t...@tombrennansoftware.com> wrote: > > Then you're lucky because my view is more like what David said. > > On 10/21/2021 6:49 PM, Bill Johnson wrote: >> Plus, I’ve worked in 15 shops in my career, including banking, insurance, >> retail, and health care. In all of them, the mainframe is the most important >> and most used platform. And it’s not even close. >> >> >> Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone >> >> >> On Thursday, October 21, 2021, 9:13 PM, David Crayford <dcrayf...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >> On 21/10/2021 7:31 am, Bill Johnson wrote: >>> I do almost everything important via app with a mainframe on the back end. >>> Banking, health records, retail shopping, insurance claims, investing. And >>> with very high confidence the transactions are secure, fast, & always >>> available. Not sure how more modern the mainframe could be actually. >>> Bill J >> >> I would suggest that almost all of those companies (banks, retail, >> insurance etc) that run mainframes run a significant portion of their IT >> systems on distributed systems. I recently met a software architect from >> a bank who told me that the explosion of internet banking app usage has >> pushed up the TCO of their mainframe to unacceptable levels. 70% of >> those transactions were reads (folks checking their bank balances on >> their phones). Their solution was use Apache Kafka to replicate the data >> to Apache Cassandra and only hit the mainframe for writes. >> >> Apache Kafka can be deployed on z/OS but it was crippled due to the >> BPX1MMP (mmap) service being contained to 2GB. IBM have recently fixed >> that which is another good example of mainframe modernization >> https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/apar/PH32235. >> >> >>> >>> Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone >>> >>> >>> On Wednesday, October 20, 2021, 7:18 PM, Rich Smrcina >>> <r...@velocitysoftware.com> wrote: >>> >>> That can certainly be part of it. >>> >>> But it can also mean providing applications (typically web based) with >>> access to z/OS data, or interfaces. Whether that’s direct access to the >>> data, or access through a REST type interface. That way the mainframe can >>> retain it’s role as the system of record, and at the same time put a more >>> modern face on the applications. >>> >>> Rich Smrcina >>> >>> >>>> On Oct 20, 2021, at 6:08 PM, Mark Jacobs >>>> <00000224d287a4b1-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: >>>> >>>> I think it's related to the push for the z/OS Management Facility (z/OSMF) >>>> and Zowe over traditional system administration and programming methods. >>>> >>>> Mark Jacobs >>>> >>>> Sent from ProtonMail, Swiss-based encrypted email. >>>> >>>> GPG Public Key - >>>> https://api.protonmail.ch/pks/lookup?op=get&search=markjac...@protonmail.com >>>> >>>> ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ >>>> >>>> On Wednesday, October 20th, 2021 at 6:50 PM, David Elliot >>>> <star2019...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Does anyone out there know what is meant by the expression "Mainframe >>>>> >>>>> Modernization' '? It seems to be catching on with the Bobs but when you >>>>> >>>>> ask exactly how they propose to modernize their systems all you get is >>>>> >>>>> silence. As in if you don"know we shouldn't even be talking about it. >>>>> >>>>> Any ideas ? 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