The University of Tennessee deactivated all LPARs on its IBM mainframe today and said good bye to an old friend. Software licenses and hardware maintenance expire at midnight tonight. It's been a long, slow migration which ended today. We ran both z/VM and z/OS in production until the end.
Starting with an IBM 360/40 as a frontend to an IBM 7040 in 1967 and then an IBM 360/65 in 1970, the university has been an IBM mainframe user for over four decades. IBM has been on campus since about 1960, but everything pre-System 360 preceded me and isn't really of the same mainframe era. We started with DOS, then OS/360, then adding VM when the 370/148 came in the door. The generations here have been the IBM 360/40, 360/65, 370/148, 4341, 4381, 2 3031's, 3081, 3090 (with VF's), 9672 and finally the z/800. The z/800 served us well since 2002. Ben Alford IT Manager, Office of Information Technology Systems: Shared Services The University of Tennessee Knoxville, TN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
