John, Our mainframe appliation systems are old also. We have a z10BC, one production LPAR, no CF, and CICS/VSAM with a very little bit of DB2 processing. Over the past year and a half our DDF processing has been increasing dramatically, so the applications folks have found out about that nicety. However, I would say we are fully operational greater than 60% of the time. Being not operational 40% of the time means you have something down at some time for a total of 9.6 hours a day. Being a bank with online banking (Yes, our online banking has to access the mainframe for legacy data) that would be completely unacceptable for us. We'd be losing customers rapidly.
Tom Kelman Enterprise Capacity Planner Commerce Bank of Kansas City (816) 760-7632 > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of McKown, John > Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2010 12:31 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: z/Vendor Watch: zNext or z11? Either Way, It's Coming Soon! > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kelman, Tom > > Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2010 12:23 PM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: z/Vendor Watch: zNext or z11? Either Way, It's > > Coming Soon! > > > > That is interesting, but I thought another part of the > > article was more > > interesting. On the second page there is a heading > > "Governments Invest > > in Modernization" with the following statement. > > > > "The timing of this research is intriguing; it comes on the heels of > > reports that the U.S. Secret Service has been seriously hampered by > > underfunding in IT, and specifically by a 30-year-old legacy mainframe > > system at the heart of the organization, which has been fully > > operational only 60 percent of the time." > > > > I'd certainly like to have more on this. Are they saying > > that the U.S. > > Secret Service is still using 30 year old IBM 360 processors > > - certainly > > not. But if the processors and operating systems are much newer than > > that shouldn't they be able to get better than 60% up time? > > > > > > > > Tom Kelman > > Depends. What are they running? How do they measure "up time"? We are > still stuck in the 1970s for all intents and purposes. We run CICS with > VSAM. No RDMS. No Websphere. 100% COBOL. We do run some 3270 "screen > scraping" and even have a few CICS web like transactions via HTTP. But we > have a lot of night down-time for running batch reports and updates > against the CICS VSAM files. This is on CICS/TS 3.2, z/OS 1.10, and a > z9BC. Our legacy applications are old, old, old. > > -- > John McKown > Systems Engineer IV > IT > > Administrative Services Group > > HealthMarkets(r) > > 9151 Boulevard 26 * N. Richland Hills * TX 76010 > (817) 255-3225 phone * (817)-961-6183 cell > [email protected] * www.HealthMarkets.com > > Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message may contain confidential or > proprietary information. If you are not the intended recipient, please > contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original > message. HealthMarkets(r) is the brand name for products underwritten and > issued by the insurance subsidiaries of HealthMarkets, Inc. -The > Chesapeake Life Insurance Company(r), Mid-West National Life Insurance > Company of TennesseeSM and The MEGA Life and Health Insurance Company.SM > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO > Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ***************************************************************************** If you wish to communicate securely with Commerce Bank and its affiliates, you must log into your account under Online Services at http://www.commercebank.com or use the Commerce Bank Secure Email Message Center at https://securemail.commercebank.com NOTICE: This electronic mail message and any attached files are confidential. The information is exclusively for the use of the individual or entity intended as the recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, any use, copying, printing, reviewing, retention, disclosure, distribution or forwarding of the message or any attached file is not authorized and is strictly prohibited. If you have received this electronic mail message in error, please advise the sender by reply electronic mail immediately and permanently delete the original transmission, any attachments and any copies of this message from your computer system. ***************************************************************************** ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
