You guys are the 2021 version of the guy who said the mainframe would be dead by 2000.
Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone On Thursday, October 21, 2021, 10:50 PM, Tom Brennan <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> > 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 >> <[email protected]> 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 >>> <[email protected]> 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&[email protected] >>> >>> ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ >>> >>> On Wednesday, October 20th, 2021 at 6:50 PM, David Elliot >>> <[email protected]> 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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