6 Apr
2013
6 Apr
'13
8:58 p.m.
On 04/06/2013 03:45 PM, MG wrote:
I was in a Lowe's store today (big US-based hardware store chain) and saw a
very obvious TSO or CICS session running in a 3270 emulator at every customer
service station at the desk. And that was just today's random data point in
a very mainstream place.
Do your own googling. You can get VM/370 and a few releases of MVS, as
well as some other stuff. This is not news, even if it's news to you.
Wrong.
Actually
they're nearly all interactive. Most of the "heavy lifting"
(processing bank transactions) all happens in batch, as it should, but
TSO sessions are how development, monitoring, data entry, etc gets done.
From what I've read and heard, that has been largely marginalized and
replaced with generic Windows-hosted client stuff nowadays with fancy
'GUI' tools. There are.
Where? Also, are you allowed to by IBM?
Yes, for certain (old) releases. This is very common, lots of people are
doing it. It is not new.
I run several
instances of that, and I had once thought of setting
up a system for people to use, but it's so easy to run that I didn't
see much point.
Maybe because you'd get IBM's lawyers after you, that's why you
haven't. The fact that you even say you run it at home probably
isn't too wise, especially if IBM read about it... As far as I'm aware, it's not exactly
'allowed' to run (e.g.) "z"
'at home', not even for non-commercial/private reasons and end-
uses/purposes.
Wrong again.
One day I will learn to avoid feeding the trolls. One day.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA