At 09:06 -0700 on 07/08/2008, Skip Robinson wrote about Re: Going
unsupported - time to fold?:
I once worked for a company that had previously been a big user of IMS. By
the time I arrived, IMS was long gone after being replaced by other data
base software. One day the finance folks called up and asked whether we
could resurrect some old IMS files that would document an opportunity to
save the company a boatload in some kind of tax overpayments. The number
was worth some research. We put our heads together and decided that
-- we still had valid backup tapes of the files in question
-- we had no chance in h*ll of making any sense of the data without an IMS
to unscramble it
Besides not being licensed for IMS, we saw no prospect of reanimating a
version that could process the data in an intelligible way. We had to give
up.
Query - Couldn't you have rented time at a Datacenter (or a HOT Site)
with IMS and run your IMS there?
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