Are you moving off the mainframe?
Do you know exact date of mainframe shutdown?
Is the date guaranteed?
Who is the guarantor? Some team leader, project manager, external
contractor? Is it CIO?
Do you have it on paper? Is it clearly communicated?
I bet NO.
So I bet few years later there will be new management, who did not
guaranteed anything.
But *your* system will be unsupported with some effects of it.
*You* will be in trouble.
Note, it is sometimes against the rules to run such system by financial
institution.
The last caused I've got green light for system upgrade, despite they
want to move off the mainframe. However the willingness is approx. 10
years old, but results are still not promising.
Oh, BTW - while it was impossible to move off the mainframe, it occured
possible to move off me. :-(
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Radoslaw Skorupka
Lodz, Poland
W dniu 16.07.2021 o 21:52, McCabe, Ron pisze:
Hello IBM List,
Got a question about how you feel about running on an unsupported z/OS version.
Just about like everyone else our company is moving off the mainframe ...
after several failed attempts I do believe they have something that will work
this time and I'm OK with it because if they reach their goal End of Life for
the mainframe will be when I was planning on retiring.
Some background - we are currently running z/OS 2.2, we started the process to
upgrade to 2.3 about 6 months ago and we are close to implementing providing
our DEV's and BA's can finish up the testing that we require which is not going
very well. Since the EOL goal for the mainframe is 4th quarter 2022 we are now
thinking of not implementing z/OS 2.3 since it could possibly cause more
problems for us than just staying with z/OS 2.2.
So my question - how does everyone feel about running on an unsupported z/OS
system?
Thanks,
Ron McCabe
Manager of Mainframe/Midrange Systems
Mutual of Enumclaw
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