Greetings all, Haven't posted here in quite some time but I thought it'd be fun to post another "getting off the mainframe" story. Been working for the City of San Antonio for 25 years now. I started as part of the mainframe staff and that was my primary function until 2009 when it was decided to move away from the mainframe. In the intervening years, my primary function moved to storage/backup systems which made sense for me since I dealt heavily with storage/backup operations on the mainframe and HDS storage. We were supposed to be off the mainframe by 30 Sep 2012 but here we are in 2024 and it's still running production applications. It's just a handful but they're critical. So here I am maintaining both a z/890 & HDS USP-V with no IBM or Hitachi support (just hardware support contracts from third party vendors). I'm now hearing we'll be off of it by Nov of this year. You think I'm going to hold my breath? I may actually retire before it's gone. Anyway, I just thought this audience may be amused by this.
Cheers all, Tim ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
