For those that keep track, yesterday I had the sad duty of shutting down our z/OS environment for the last time. Ours wasn't a big shop with a single z890 running 2 LPARs (one Production and one sandbox). To help reduce costs for the last few months, we reduced capacity from a model 240 to model 320 last fall, just prior to IBM removing support for the z890. The application data that once resided on the mainframe was integrated into a system on another platform on or shortly after 12/31/2008. The remaining 3 months of processing was used for validation and to offload historic data.
It's tough to say goodbye to my support staff, the application developers, operators, and schedulers/production control. I wish them all luck in their new endeavors! I've been retained for another couple of months to help remove the assets associated with the z environment, and then I'm off to find my own 'new endeavor'. Steve Horein Sr. Systems Programmer Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
