On Tue, 29 Apr 2008, John Mattson wrote: > Well, it had to happen eventually. My shop will lay MVS to rest, > but it will probably take a few years.
Sorry to hear this. > Our parent company is all SAP, and the pressure has been on us to > conform. So, I thought "Hey, all those articles in z/Journal about Linux > and IFL's and zVM !!! Just get the sales guys from big Blue in there, and > show how the old dino can keep up with the kids". 'Taint so folks. IBM > and the business partners looked at the sizing documents and would not > even submit a bid. Said they were not able to compete for the price > against open systems. So, we end up going with AIX servers, and run > Oracle DB's and SAP. Well, it sure beats Intel and Windows! > I have not been able to get a clear answer from IBM on this, but > it appers from what I can find out to be a matter of size. Currently we > are a 300 mip z890, and although we would have to grow to go with the SAP > solution, the mainframe/IFL/VM/DB2 solution just cannot compete for the > price at this end of the size range. So just where the cut-off is, I am > not sure. But I can tell you that it is somewhere above 300 mips. > Looks like z/OS 1.8 may be the last MVS level I even install. Hard > decision. About 10 years until retirement. Become a DBA, or polish up > the resume? Decisions, decisions. On this point, my question would be "do you like your current company?" If yes, then becoming a DBA could be a "good thing". If no, then time to move on. Where I am now, we are supposedly phasing out z/OS as well. But we don't have any kind of actual plan. It's just a "direction". Our newest "open" manager hates Windows and loves AIX. I've been hold that he would like to have the z/OS people learn AIX due to our professionalism. I would like that. I think z/OS is the ultimate OS out there, right now. But AIX (and Linux) are good too. Anything but Windows. I despise Microsoft and think Windows is a perfect example of how to not design an enterprise OS. As a desktop, well it's acceptable. Though I would never give up my Linux desktop to run Windows again (at home). > Well, "What a long, strange trip it's been." -- Q: What do theoretical physicists drink beer from? A: An EIN stein. Maranatha! John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
