re: #179 Eventual Carrion
They had even started implementing web services to access CICS transactions on the mainframe. That opened things up bigly to other system being able to communicate with mainframe data.
And that was just the first cut - now with z/OS Connect it’s gotten even easier. And even IMS now has a repository to make interfacing with BMP and DLI a doodle….
Hell, they haven’t been able to kill off TPF….