Over a year ago one of our DBA's converted us from OAM and the 3995 to
remote DB2 objects on DASD on a non-mainframe server platform (as the
whole point of the 3995 was long-term archival on random access media
cheaper than mainframe DASD). Our case might have been simpler than
yours in that our only OAM archive and user of the 3995 was accessed
through a single in-house subroutine and 3995 updates were only done
weekly. I don't know all the details, but I'm pretty sure he had to
write his own program to pull objects from OAM and the 3995 and store
them on the new platform; but by retaining some of the old naming
conventions and modifying the common access subroutine, the move was
almost transparent to the applications using the archive (except for
elimination of the weekly 3995 drive and/or cherry picker failures and
extended periods of unavailability!).
I can remember no another hardware device that was the source of so
many night calls, or that I was happier to see depart. As this
application was the only user of OAM, we were able to turn off that as
well.
Six months after the departure of the 3995, our snack vendor replaced
our simple gravity-feed drink vending machines with "improved" vending
machines with a cherry-picker extraction mechanism, a single point of
failure like the 3995 that breaks at least once a month. Go figure!
Joel C Ewing, Data-Tronics Corp., Fort Smith, AR
Joel M Ivey wrote:
We're in need of migrating our transitioned objects to a better-performing
platform than the 3995. Unfortunately OAM doesn't support transitioning
objects to (non-DB2) dasd. Our other option is our VTS. Are there any
shops that have migrated all their 3995 objects to another platform in order
to get rid of the 3995 altogether?
Thanks,
Joel
USC
Columiba, SC
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