A couple of initiatives here include drives to leave the mainframe. One databased application has nearly 1,000,000 records, which isn't huge I admit. The use is for problem and change tracking and it takes a good while to filter down to what is being sought. There are also the requisite jobs which run several hours on the Z/890 chugging through historical data. I always wonder when the drive to move to the server farm gets bandied about is how much legacy data gets moved, how much stays? And, since we work in the financial realm, if historical data is archived and the mainframe is decommissioned, how is that data retrieved when some federal agency wants to see what happened?
We were supposed to be killing off VM here "in a two year project". I've been here over a year and am going to a VM class next month to maintain its life support while the (moving) two year target is sought. Lewis Carroll foretold of the dying of the mainframes - And didst thou slay the Jabberwocky.... Daniel McLaughlin ZOS Systems Programmer Crawford & Company PH: 770 621 3256 * One seventh of your life is spent on Monday. - Unknown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
