Steve
I'm sorry for your loss. I hope you find something when you finally finish
your employment there.
Your situation seems very similar to my bosses situation when I was at P&H
Mining. He spent about 2 months after everyone else left (only about 5
people in this case) decommissioning the datacenter. He had to arrange
putting the building that we had leased back to its original condition. The
building was previously used in manufacturing paint or something similar.
The raised floor had to be pulled out, and several other things had to be
done, as well as arranging to get rid of all the furniture etc. The ironic
thing is that after he finished that, he found a job for a company that
would provide a cold DR site, so after dismantling the P&H datacenter, he
built a new one.
Eric
Eric Bielefeld
Sr. Systems Programmer
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
414-475-7434
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Horein" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2009 10:21 AM
Subject: One less mainframe shop
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
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