> -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom Schmidt > Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2007 12:14 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Attractive Alternatives to Mainframes > > > On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 10:54:01 -0700, Kopischke, David G. wrote: > >I sure hope they do a follow-up on this one early next year. > > > Lets see... Gartner called it "a reasonable sized mainframe > shop" and the > VP mentioned that it was a 1600 MIPS system. That is, what, > a 3-way z9?!? > So IBM lost a Baby Computer (z9BC) on Wall Street... Can > Unicics really > handle that load reliably? (Why did Sun part with it if it > was so good?) > > -- > Tom Schmidt
The previous administration here wanted to go 100% Windows, porting all z/OS applications as-is to Windows, not doing any sort of rearchitecting. The software conversion company stated that they could take a CICS program and convert it to a native Windows program with equivalent functionality. Apparently they had some Windows/COBOL programs which would emulate the CICS functions such as TempStor. All the VSAM was to be converted to MS SQL tables. They had some sort of GDG emulator as well. And they could complete it in about 9 months. Granted, we are only a 300 MIPS shop (2068-A02). They also said that they would guarantee equivalent or better reliability, availability, and response time. But there was nothing about replacement of products such as CA-7 for scheduling or CA-11 for restart or AbendAid for post-mortem diagnostics (rerun the program in their source tracing environment, step by step, until the error occurs - are they kidding?) -- John McKown Senior Systems Programmer HealthMarkets Keeping the Promise of Affordable Coverage Administrative Services Group Information Technology The information contained in this e-mail message may be privileged and/or confidential. It is for intended addressee(s) only. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, reproduction, distribution or other use of this communication is strictly prohibited and could, in certain circumstances, be a criminal offense. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender by reply and delete this message without copying or disclosing it. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
