Have you ever seen a Mainframe?

rlloydsr · Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2008 5:18 am

Hello

When I started as a programmer the computer room was accessible to programmers you could pick up yor reports, request tape mounts and have card decks executed. In most computer rooms there was also a keypunch machine for fixing bad job cards and such.

dick scherrer · Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2008 5:57 am

Hello Mr Lloyd (sr) and welcome to the forum,

If you look around, you may spot more than just a few others who started on cards too

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Soundammal.S · New User Joined: 05 May 2008 Posts: 29 Location: Chennai

Initially i worked in H30 and z900 machine. Now i'm working in z10 machine. I'm very proud of working in mainframe.

new2cobol · New User Joined: 04 Jan 2006 Posts: 77 Location: Bangalore

I did get a peek at the z9 while at the client data center... the operator (or data center manager, who knows?) shooed me off before I could get a good look. So have I seen it? yes. really? well....

Anitha Sekar · New User Joined: 17 Jan 2009 Posts: 5 Location: Chennai

eagerly waiting to see .

Girijesh · New User Joined: 19 Sep 2008 Posts: 14

well i hope someday i will meet this giant!!!!! what do you think?

enrico-sorichetti · Posted: Sun Apr 05, 2009 6:51 pm

Girijesh · New User Joined: 19 Sep 2008 Posts: 14

Good piece of information!!!

srsathish · Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2009 8:00 pm

Hello all,

It was amazing to read the members experience who had seen the mainframe and those who had slept on it! Eat on it! Laughed & Cried bcoz of mainframe. It was truly awesome.

Any my experience is I would love to see it.

Thanks,
s r

gearmoh · New User Joined: 04 Jun 2009 Posts: 1 Location: bangalore

hi
i didn't see till yet.past 2 yrs working in mainframe .i might see in future

radhakrishnan82 · Posted: Wed Jul 08, 2009 9:31 am

I wish to see atleast once!

ram2009 · New User Joined: 04 May 2009 Posts: 14 Location: chennai

we are working on a z10 2097 e12 model mainframes. I also have worked on z900 2064 also

shivkumar · New User Joined: 06 Mar 2009 Posts: 8 Location: Pune

Hi,

Yes, I saw 370 one in Maple's Chennai.

naziashaffi · New User Joined: 27 May 2009 Posts: 22 Location: India

Hi Sir,

billrain · New User Joined: 03 Dec 2007 Posts: 3 Location: China

yeap z9 EC & z900

fayazbashask · New User Joined: 28 Jun 2007 Posts: 9 Location: Hyderabad

I have seen a mainframe

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Neha_Chopde · New User Joined: 17 Dec 2009 Posts: 1 Location: Pune

no not seen since frm 2 years workin on mainframe technology. I hope to see it soon....

dick scherrer · Posted: Mon Dec 21, 2009 8:17 pm

Hello and welcome to the forum,

Suggest you talk with someone in the Computer Operations group (or your manager) and ask for a bit of a tour (if your office is somewhere near the computer room and not a remote site).

Anuj Dhawan · Posted: Mon Dec 21, 2009 8:29 pm

Hi Dick,

She is from Pune (a city in India), a "tour" seems to be a distant dream.

However, she might try to get in touch with CDAC or Maple (local Mainframs coaching cetnres) they have got their own Mainframes, I've heard.

dick scherrer · Posted: Mon Dec 21, 2009 10:16 pm

Hi Anuj,

Yup, i knew Pune is in India, but not that this would be a remote site

I've been some places where the IT staff is "just down the hall" from the data center and most of the people had never seen the inside of the computer room.

MBabu · Posted: Tue Dec 22, 2009 9:00 pm

started on a 370/125, worked on 3033E, serial number 000002 - so many ECs (engineering changes) that it didn't have doors on it because of all the wires going from one frame to the next. Then countless boxes after that. Only ever saw one 360 in production on a manufacturing line. Used 3084 TCMs as paper weights. Mainframes were just big boxes. Now they are just small boxes.

Willem Vermeer · Posted: Wed Jan 20, 2010 10:40 pm

Hi,

I started with MVS 3.7 on a 370/158. Most beautiful machine I ever saw was a 370/168 MP. Storage was on 3330 and tape was the reel stuff on very real units. Did a lot of working with punched cards, too.

Must admit, it's been some time sincs I actually saw a mainframe. Not that I actually miss it. After all, nowadays they're just as nice looking as a fridge.

Marso · Posted: Thu Jan 21, 2010 4:25 am

Funny,
for all places I worked with VSE, the answer is YES,
and for all places I worked with MVS, the answer is NO.

BASKAR SETHU · New User Joined: 18 Jan 2010 Posts: 1 Location: Mysore

i saw in CDAC, Trivandrum

lmuvalla · New User Joined: 27 Nov 2009 Posts: 7 Location: chennai

I am new to this world...
i am jus 2 months old in mainframe technology...

i hope to see the giant very soon......