I just got back from a COMA (Computer Operations Management 
Association) meeting.  I thought it interesting that two other 
companies from the Milwaukee area were also getting rid of their 
mainframes.  One in September, and one in an indefinite period of 
time.  I won't name names as I don't know if they would want me to.  

As many of you know, my job is going away in about 3 months.  Our 
conversion to our sister company's data center who runs SAP/R3 on an 
AIX platform is about 1 month from now.  

There was also some good news from mainframe users.  One company was 
upgrading their CPU and dasd.  Another said they had all kinds of 
programmer jobs open for the mainframe.  

Eric Bielefeld
Sr. Systems Programmer
P&H Mining Equipment
414-671-7849
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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