[Info-vax] CentOS has been effectively killed for production use

[David Wade]

On 16/12/2020 11:34, IanD wrote:
> On Thursday, December 10, 2020 at 11:41:39 AM UTC+11, David Wade wrote:
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>> IBM mainframes are big. If you need one to run zOS (formerly MVS) or zVM
>> (formerly VM/ESA, VM/XA etc) then they sell you a box that is over
>> sized, but even so you only get to use part of it. You pay with the soul
>> of your first born, or some other outrageous fee, but IBM know that you
>> have a pile of CICS code written in Assembler or Cobol and no one who
>> understands the business logic so you are pretty much stuck with a
>> mainframe.
>>
>> You are probably using it to run a big bank, airline reservation system
>> or Air Traffic control. Moving from these hits into those risk analysis
>> holes you mentioned before.
>>
>> However now you have the big animal IBM will let you use the spare
>> capacity to run Linux. They charge much less for this capacity. Its
>> called "Integrated Facility for Linux"
>>
> 
> Where I work they recently performed a mainframe upgrade because they have a number of projects now targeting the mainframe, one of the drivers being reducing the security venerability footprint and others from i/o requirements as data volumes explode
> 
> There is currently an industry shortage as federal institutions snap up personal with their deep pockets and Boomers retire
> 
> They are even embarking upon mainframe training programs, such is the renewed focus on the mainframe for the areas where it excels. It's certainly not being treated as a dinosaur
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https://www.ibm.com/it-infrastructure/z/education/master-the-mainframe

Dave