"IBM's leader has trumpeted an AI-on-the-mainframe future as generative AI fills in the COBOL gap left by earlier generations of techies."

https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/29/ibm_q4_2025/

#ibm #zseries #mainframe #cobol

#mainframers what’s your emulator?

Decades of experience using PCOMM now I’m forced to use Micro Focus Reflection :/

My bloody insert key wasn’t working and other delightful remapping that awaits.

#zseries #mainframe

Что было бы, если OS/2 от IBM выиграла у Windows 95

В конце 80-х IBM и Microsoft сообща трудились над операционкой будущего — OS/2, но их пути разошлись. В итоге триумф достался Windows 95, ставшей новым стандартом для ПК. Но давайте представим альтернативный сценарий, в котором корпоративный мир в 90-х сделал выбор в пользу OS/2. Читать

https://habr.com/ru/companies/ruvds/articles/964320/

#ос #операционные_системы #windows #история_it #научнопопулярное #ibm #microsoft #os2 #zSeries #ruvds_статьи

Echte Computer haben Türen: Großrechner regieren immer noch!

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#Mainframe #IBM #zSeries

TIL, the German #Datev uses #IBM #zOS for paycheck #PDF generation. PDFs are generated through PDFlib by the Munich based company of the same name:

PDF producer: PDFlib+PDI 9.0.4-m (zSeries z/OS)

The API ref is promising some fun:
"For use with C, C++, Cobol, COM, Java, .NET, Objective-C, Perl, PHP, Python, REALbasic/Xojo, RPG, Ruby"
(https://www.pdflib.com/fileadmin/pdflib/pdf/manuals/PDFlib-9.0.4-API-reference.pdf)

As well as:
"PDFlib is available on a variety of platforms, including Unix,
Windows, OS X, and EBCDIC-based systems such as IBM i5/iSeries and zSeries."
(https://www.pdflib.com/fileadmin/pdflib/pdf/manuals/PDFlib-9.0.4-tutorial.pdf)

And since IBM #zSeries does everything in #EBCDIC, this, of course is also supported:

"stringformat ebcdicutf8: All strings and option lists are expected in EBCDIC-UTF-8 format with or without BOM."

And although I do hope that Datev uses Unix System Services #USS instead of plain #MVS on z/OS, this does give me the creeps:

"MVS versions of PDFlib GmbH products are not thread-safe"
(https://www.pdflib.com/fileadmin/pdflib/System_Requirements/PDFlib-9.0.4-system-requirements.txt)

Truly curséd. But PDFlib on zSeries doesn't support networking ... unfortunately?

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#nikon #gps #nikongps #gp1 #gp-1 #z7 #nikonz #zseries