On Fri, 30 Jan 2009 12:18:25 -0600, Lupher, Fred <[email protected]> wrote:
>We are a long time Syncsort customer. Our contract with them will be up for renewal soon, so this is a good time to consider the competitors. Does anyone have experience migrating away from Syncsort you'd care to share? Or if you looked into switching but decided not to, I'd be interested in knowing what stopped you? > I my experience, if you have decent negotiators, the costs are similar enough that it doesn't make sense in terms of man hours to test and convert. Of course that depends on the size of the shop / conversion. Then someone will want you to convert the next time a contact comes up and there is a (slight?) cost advantage to change. The only reason to switch (or not) in my mind would be based on features (one you really could use that you don't have). One feature that has kept us from switching from SYNCSORT is the MAXSORT feature. IBM's answer is to use lots of SORTWKxx. That is a very valid answer because these MAXSORT applications were created so many years ago that I know there would be no problem converting them to use disk and the checkpointing is also not an issue. However, the man hours to convert and test all the applications is. Especially since that function was outsourced. My 2 cents... Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group - ZFUS G-ITO mailto:[email protected] z/OS Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ Mark's MVS Utilities: http://home.flash.net/~mzelden/mvsutil.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
