You'll find a bit more discussion about it on the VM listserv. While z/OS is a
requirement for the care and feeding of z/TPF, we use VM extensively as a
development and test platform. And yes, a hotel is an airplane without wings.
We used TPF for rates and inventory at Holiday Inn/BHR/IHG bef
Maybe use a database like EOS to suck up all those uncataloged tapes and index
them? Hopefully, there is some kind of machine readable index data created
when the fiche tape is created.
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We once had a database so valuable that it was mirrored to a remote site where
8, 16, and 24 hour PIT copies of it were made. We could do forward recovery
from tape if needed. This was more to protect against an application trashing
the data than anything else. It was hoped that data corrupti
I was a Marketing Rep at the time Akers & Co were so afraid of DEC and SUN
that we *had* to sell these things in order to meet quota. System/36 also
counted as I recall. I worked with large commercial clients who didn't want
them or DEC/SUN either for that matter.
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My Fortune 500 employer got off their mainframes by using SaaS vendors for most
of the big BICARSA applications that ran on their mainframes. What back end
those SaaS vendors use is anybody's guess. They also decided in the case of
some applications that they would move to Intel hardware based
I loved SHARE, the (very) few times in my career I was allowed to attend.
Seems I always had budget or membership constraints. Hopefully one of the
changes to come out of all this is a much easier and cheaper virtual presence
for groups like this. All the pundits say "the virus will change th
Well, since there's no safe dose of ionizing radiation, and Feynman died of
complications of liposarcoma, he would probably have been the first to get rid
of the damn things out of shoe stores.
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