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 <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> on behalf of z/OS scheduler <000007b0d5270c64-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> Sent: 03 March 2025 15:59 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> 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 <li...@akphs.com>: > Confused by: > > But, that does not make a z/ server a mainframe. > > What does that mean? > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf > Of z/OS scheduler > Sent: Monday, March 3, 2025 10:50 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > 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 lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
