Anyone who uses social media’s platform as proof the mainframe is dying is a fool. The mainframe still processes the important transactions worldwide, because of uptime, security, speed. Oh, and Microsoft had a major outage today that banks, Walmart, insurance companies, airlines, and other companies can’t afford. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14451113/amp/Microsoft-Outlook-global-outage.html
Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone On Saturday, March 1, 2025, 4:26 PM, Michael Oujesky <[email protected]> wrote: Atop U.S. tanks sits a Browning M-2 .50 cal. A 100 year old design. Old does mean obsolete. Most IT executives believe one-size fits all, regardless of whether its is mainframe or distributed. Rare is the IT executive that understands you use the proper tool in it's place. I understand we still use knives to cut meat and axes to chop wood. Michael At 02:19 PM 3/1/2025, Matt Hogstrom wrote: >It is an I/O beast and the runtimes like CICS >and Db2 enable the high Tran rate as well. I >believe the runtimes are thin and powerful and >have evolved overtime but new development doesn’t typically end up there > >I love the platform and believe it remain >relevant because of customer investments in it >but I’ve not seen brand new development land there > >There are good cases for reduced latency and >collocation. We need to see it in the context of the whole ecosystem. > >Matt Hogstrom >+1 (919) 656-0564 > > > On Mar 1, 2025, at 10:35, william janulin > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >  True but one mainframe box can handle far > more transactions that a row of open systems > servers can. Plus it is a lot more secure from hackers. > > Just sayin > > On Friday, February 28, 2025 at 07:18:12 > AM EST, z/OS scheduler > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > 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://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail> > > Virus-free.www.avast.com > > > <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail> > > <#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://youtu.be/z3Canfs_2Gc > >>> > >>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >>> 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 > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >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
