On 19 Nov 2008 09:14:56 -0800, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: >>Interesting note in this article, "Unfortunately, HP couldnt provide a single >>customer out of a reported 250 that could speak to me about their >>migration." > > >That says a lot, you would figure these 250 (or at least some contigent >thereof) would be going, hey this is great, and would be willing to talk to >anyone and everyone about how "wonderful" their "migration" went. > I contracted as a COBOL programmer analyst at a shop that as a part of their Y2K effort converted from OS390 to HP-UX using Uni-SPF and Uni-Kix. They converted all of the VSAM to Oracle. I cleaned up small pieces of debris left from that conversion. They also used a shell that could provide GDG function for sequential files. It seemed to work and be cheaper. I forget what the source management system was and exactly how security was done. They had a test server and one or two production servers. They were happy with it and working to get off the long in tooth CICS application. SYNCSORT for HP-UX made the mainframe version look brain dead. Actually the biggest threat to mainframes is the fact that most mainframe applications are in interesting shape and don't provide adequate help and documentation for the users.
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