Shark Tank – Just our way of showing we care

Posted by Mike on Thursday, March 11, 2010

Flashback to the 1980s, when IBM is still shipping source code for big-iron internals, says this mainframe pilot fish.

“IBM discontinued supporting BTAM under CICS, but we had a major customer who communicated via CICS BTAM,” fish says.

Translation: The big customer uses the CICS transaction-processing system, and connects to it over telecommunication lines using the very old BTAM protocol — and IBM has just stopped supporting that approach. READ MORE

Editor’s note: Sharky is one of my favorite ComputerWorld features!