Mainframe COBOL » pilot fish http://www.mainframecobol.info We know what COBOL stands for Sun, 05 Feb 2012 18:50:57 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Shark Tank – Just our way of showing we care http://www.mainframecobol.info/2010/03/shark-tank-just-our-way-of-showing-we-care/ http://www.mainframecobol.info/2010/03/shark-tank-just-our-way-of-showing-we-care/#comments Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:54:05 +0000 Mike http://www.mainframecobol.info/?p=328 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!

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