SemiOT: Mourning for Classic Computing (Was: RE: PeeCee turn

From: Master of all that Sucks <vance_at_ikickass.org>
Date: Tue Aug 14 16:39:20 2001

On Tue, 14 Aug 2001, Eric Dittman wrote:

> > What do you think so far?
>
> I don't do all that much on the mainframe, but my systems work
> with the mainframe over SNA. The application software has come
> up without a hitch so far. What funny is the mainframe CICS
> support people moved the test CICS regions over from the LPAR
> on the R66 to the LPAR on the Z47 without anyone noticing
> (thanks to VTAM). APPLIDs sure do come in handy.

That's pretty neat. I really like the redirection and hardware
partitioning capabilities of mainframes. Mainframes kick a wide variety
of batch-processing ass.

> This Sunday is the big switch of the production environment. I'll
> be around just in case

Cool. Let me know how it goes.

Peace... Sridhar

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> Eric Dittman
> dittman_at_dittman.net
> School Zones: Man's attempt to thwart natural selection.
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