4/4/2026 at 5:20:39 PM
by hggh
4/4/2026 at 10:05:00 PM
quite a collection of documents. I was looking for CICS related manuals but I could not find them.Thank you for keeping this
by aflores57
4/4/2026 at 10:33:06 PM
if you mean you couldn't find them on bitsavers, look under ibm/370/CICSby bitsavers
4/4/2026 at 5:34:27 PM
Very nice, thank you.by roscas
4/4/2026 at 10:06:40 PM
Great! Still in use today at some retailers like Costco and Best Buy!by lokinorkle
4/4/2026 at 10:19:46 PM
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.
by rbanffy
4/4/2026 at 10:29:49 PM
There are packages available that screen scrape 3270 streams and reformat them to export as html.by bitsavers
4/4/2026 at 10:49:00 PM
It’s really a quite simple transformation. All the core ideas are the same, just the presentation is different.by rbanffy
4/4/2026 at 10:54:35 PM
Close! Costco is 5250, which has many similarities.They are a very famous AS/400 shop.
by bigfatkitten
4/5/2026 at 1:25:52 AM
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.by Finnucane
4/5/2026 at 3:21:03 AM
The problem wasn't the AS/400 (IBM i) it was the 5250 interface. That's throwing the baby out with the bath water.by _JamesA_
4/5/2026 at 11:37:30 PM
And even then, as with any other UI model, application design plays a massive role.by bigfatkitten
4/5/2026 at 2:10:13 AM
A lot of gas companies are too, especially on the distribution side. Actually AS/400, and VMS. And very recently.by FireBeyond
4/5/2026 at 3:20:17 AM
VMS is very good for high-availability systems.by SoftTalker