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What is meant by vanilla mainframes?
Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2014 2:36 pm
by Ajit Shah
Hi,
What is "vanilla mainframes"? If anybody knows it please let me know about this? I've heard/read about this term in some of the job-interviews ads.
Re: What is meant by vanilla mainframes?
Posted: Fri Jul 11, 2014 10:04 pm
by enrico-sorichetti
a vanilla something is something as it comes out of the box ...
no customisations, no add ons
usually it is not related to a mainframe as hardware, but rather to the operating system environment
Re: What is meant by vanilla mainframes?
Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2014 11:22 am
by Ajit Shah
So in terms of mainframes what should I consider as the technologies if someone talks about "vanilla mainframes"?
Re: What is meant by vanilla mainframes?
Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2014 12:38 pm
by Anuj Dhawan
As Enrico has indicated -- usually, vanilla means plain or non-specific. On the other hadn, after spending enough time in Indian IT Business, I can fairly assume that this means the knowledge of COBOL, DB2 and JCL. Sometime they assume to include VSAM and CICS knowledge too in this. I've seen "HR" personals to use this term rather than a technical person.
Hope this helps.