And so ... wait for it ... at what level can we apply retention to the
data and information on a main frame? Some data sets have a retention
built into the name (RETPD) or (EXPDT). Does the IT person entering the
data have a copy of the records retention schedule handy while s/he writes
in the data set name? Or does their retention mean something else
entirely? What is a retention dataset (RDS)?
Gary Link
Pittsburgh, PA
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Re: Main Frame Data
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In addition to your list Gary, assuming you're including databases, the
internal structure and components of the databases are themselves
potentially of great value. For example, the Queries and the Forms and
Reports which are based on those Queries, are extremely informative about
HOW any given database is used. Just looking at the data sets in isolation
doesn't really give you that knowledge.
Also, the tone of the messages exchanged on this topic implies that
mainframe computers are a platform of the past. That's not the case: if
you need computing platform with vast processing capacity and rock-solid
reliability, mainframe computers provide that. IBM still makes a good bit
of money out of that market (see
http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/advantages/index.html,
http://www-01.ibm.com/software/os/systemz/economics/index.html, and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_mainframe#Today.27s_systems).
Last I heard the New York City Financial Information Systems
Agency--FISA--still runs the NYC budget and payroll systems on mainframe
computer (if you had a payroll of 350,000, what would YOU run it on?).
From an historic point of view, IBM has a "Mainframes photo album" at the
URL
http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/mainframe/mainframe_album.html
Best regards,
Fred
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