Steve, I've contacted the 2 people off list and forwarded your email to them. I've explained the situation, and left it up to them whether they want to contact you or not. I hope they do, but of course it's up to them and their management. Sometimes, management isn't too keen to have their "Oops we made a big mistake" story posted on a web site!
BTW: For the first story, the plan was to eventually move off the mainframe entirely. They hadn't fully succeeded in doing that yet, so luckily they had the option to fall back to the mainframe once they realized how expensive it was going to be to keep their MicroFocus licenses up-to-date. Dave Salt SimpList(tm) - The easiest, most powerful way to surf a mainframe! http://www.mackinney.com/products/SIM/simplist.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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