aflores57 1 day ago

quite a collection of documents. I was looking for CICS related manuals but I could not find them.

Thank you for keeping this

  • bitsavers 1 day ago

    if you mean you couldn't find them on bitsavers, look under ibm/370/CICS

roscas 1 day ago

Very nice, thank you.

lokinorkle 1 day ago

Great! Still in use today at some retailers like Costco and Best Buy!

  • rbanffy 1 day ago

    If it’s not broken, don’t fix it.

    3270 is a very efficient form of distributed computing where terminals and their controllers control a lot of state and the mainframe is in charge of the more important things. It was a browser from the 60’s, mostly 70’s.

    • bitsavers 1 day ago

      There are packages available that screen scrape 3270 streams and reformat them to export as html.

      • rbanffy 1 day ago

        It’s really a quite simple transformation. All the core ideas are the same, just the presentation is different.

  • bigfatkitten 1 day ago

    Close! Costco is 5250, which has many similarities.

    They are a very famous AS/400 shop.

    • Finnucane 1 day ago

      Heh, up until a few years ago our inventory system ran on an AS/400, and we had to use 5250 emulators to log in. Don't miss it.

      • _JamesA_ 1 day ago

        The problem wasn't the AS/400 (IBM i) it was the 5250 interface. That's throwing the baby out with the bath water.

        • bigfatkitten 16 hours ago

          And even then, as with any other UI model, application design plays a massive role.

    • FireBeyond 1 day ago

      A lot of gas companies are too, especially on the distribution side. Actually AS/400, and VMS. And very recently.

      • SoftTalker 1 day ago

        VMS is very good for high-availability systems.