Astro Hacker News - IBM 3270 Information Display System: Color and Programmed Symbols (1979) [pdf]

aflores57 |next [-]

quite a collection of documents. I was looking for CICS related manuals but I could not find them.

Thank you for keeping this

bitsavers |root |parent [-]

if you mean you couldn't find them on bitsavers, look under ibm/370/CICS

lokinorkle |next |previous [-]

Great! Still in use today at some retailers like Costco and Best Buy!

rbanffy |root |parent |next [-]

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.

bitsavers |root |parent [-]

There are packages available that screen scrape 3270 streams and reformat them to export as html.

rbanffy |root |parent [-]

It’s really a quite simple transformation. All the core ideas are the same, just the presentation is different.

bigfatkitten |root |parent |previous [-]

Close! Costco is 5250, which has many similarities.

They are a very famous AS/400 shop.

roscas |previous [-]

Very nice, thank you.