If the mainframe was the least secured, you would hear about banks getting hacked. That’s where the money is. The mainframe is far more secure than any platform.
Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone On Monday, March 3, 2025, 12:01 PM, P H <[email protected]> wrote: At the time of the z900 announcement, IBM introduced a new naming convention for all their Servers: zSeries (z = for near zero downtime) - known as S/360, S/370. S/390 etc pSeries (p = performance) - known as RS/6000 iSeries (i = integrated) - known as AS400 xSeries (x = Intel X architecture) - known as Netfinity ________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of z/OS scheduler <[email protected]> Sent: 03 March 2025 15:59 To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: Re: The mainframe is alive 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
