Ask yourself why IBM called it z-series(end of the line/migrating from MVS to unix) and not A-Series(The beginning of a new life for MVS)? Because they knew that opening from the closed network with only CICS terminals, to TCPIP+hackability+++, was the end of the mainframe.
I am just as sad as anyone else, but that is the reality of it all... J. Op ma 3 mrt 2025 om 15:54 schreef Phil Smith III <[email protected]>: > Confused by: > > But, that does not make a z/ server a mainframe. > > What does that mean? > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf > Of z/OS scheduler > Sent: Monday, March 3, 2025 10:50 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: The mainframe is alive > > re: ... lot more secure from hackers... > Welll... that is just the thing... opening it up, is what is making it > less secure... I do agree, IBM "programmers" will take code from the > hackers posting new Linux source code and properly scrutinize it before > including it into SuSE, which is why if one look at cve.mitre.org and > the likes, IBM does not really feature there because they do things > properly. But, that does not make a z/ server a mainframe. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
