James, I'm going to respectfully disagree with you here. I think the "opening up" of z/OS (and VSE,VM etc) via TCP/IP extended the life of the machine and OSes. At the time VTAM communications was in its heyday, the rest of the world was dealing with baud rates over RS232 dumb terminals. Once TCP/IP took over the ASCII world communication-wise, IBM had to either adapt or die. Fortunately for my career and many others, IBM adapted and brought the mainframe OSes into intercommunicability with the rest of the computing world.
It's OK if we don't agree on this, lets just not turn this into a flame war, please. 😊 Rex -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of z/OS scheduler Sent: Friday, February 28, 2025 6:18 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: The mainframe is alive Please don't kid yourself ;-) The mainframe died the moment tcpip was introduced and it became "just another server" in the sea of servers. Distraughted James <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail__;!!KjMRP1Ixj6eLE0Fj!oq4IelB7sVN4NujuJviKp-NTe0jZn_XIu5W-ChRJ56OfxLgmQVIL5mdWp31wDSUBjemQ9Jq5XGVniUrPTJfJxrP_16XnIbAvrIYQ$ > Virus-free.https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://www.avast.com__;!!KjMRP1Ixj6eLE0Fj!oq4IelB7sVN4NujuJviKp-NTe0jZn_XIu5W-ChRJ56OfxLgmQVIL5mdWp31wDSUBjemQ9Jq5XGVniUrPTJfJxrP_16XnIYSGjiC-$ <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail__;!!KjMRP1Ixj6eLE0Fj!oq4IelB7sVN4NujuJviKp-NTe0jZn_XIu5W-ChRJ56OfxLgmQVIL5mdWp31wDSUBjemQ9Jq5XGVniUrPTJfJxrP_16XnIbAvrIYQ$ > <#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2> Op zo 12 jan 2025 om 22:26 schreef Howard Rifkind < [email protected]>: > AND WELL > > Sent from my iPhone > > > On Jan 12, 2025, at 01:37, The North American Becker < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://youtu.be/z3Canfs_2Gc__;!!KjMRP1 > > Ixj6eLE0Fj!oq4IelB7sVN4NujuJviKp-NTe0jZn_XIu5W-ChRJ56OfxLgmQVIL5mdWp > > 31wDSUBjemQ9Jq5XGVniUrPTJfJxrP_16XnIQDQKely$ > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > -- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
