>Subject: Re: 21st Century Migrates Mainframe with Clerity >Last I heard, they were a relatively small Prop/Casualty insurer....
>Certainly not a State Farm, Prudential, Farmers, Allstate,..... Just the same, Clerity has had a few high profile successes doing migrations. The NYSE used the Clerity solution back in 2008 to migrate a major trading application. 10 million lines of code were re-hosted and a 1660 MIPS mainframe complex was retired. So it can be done. Back in 2004-2005, I was part of a small team at the Washington State Department of Licensing that migrated the Driver and Vehicle licensing apps off their UNISYS mainframe onto Windows Servers running Fujitsu NetCOBOL. This too was entirely successful. I have heard good things about the Oracle solution which is built upon Tuxedo. There have been some big failures too. It seems that you need to be very selective about what apps you attempt to replatform. CICS/DB2 seems to be the sweet spot. But once you start introducing the complexities of SYSPLEX, IRC, MRO, VSAM, DL/1, PL/I, etc. you are heading into uncharted waters and need to be very careful. My opinion is that such replatforming projects will continue. But I don't think IBM listers need fear, since I believe that the rate of system programmer retirements will far exceed the rate of mainframe platform retirements, at least for the next decade. John P.S I have no relationship with any migration vendors mentioned here. I used to work for Fujitsu/Amdahl/DMR, but that career ended in 2008. Now I am just an independent contractor. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
