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IBM 3270 Information Display System: Color and Programmed Symbols (1979) [pdf] (bitsavers.org)
aflores57 4 hours ago [-]
quite a collection of documents. I was looking for CICS related manuals but I could not find them.

Thank you for keeping this

bitsavers 3 hours ago [-]
if you mean you couldn't find them on bitsavers, look under ibm/370/CICS
lokinorkle 4 hours ago [-]
Great! Still in use today at some retailers like Costco and Best Buy!
rbanffy 3 hours ago [-]
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 3 hours ago [-]
There are packages available that screen scrape 3270 streams and reformat them to export as html.
rbanffy 3 hours ago [-]
It’s really a quite simple transformation. All the core ideas are the same, just the presentation is different.
bigfatkitten 3 hours ago [-]
Close! Costco is 5250, which has many similarities.

They are a very famous AS/400 shop.

Finnucane 11 minutes ago [-]
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.
roscas 8 hours ago [-]
Very nice, thank you.
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