2022???
Sent with Proton Mail secure email. On Friday, January 19th, 2024 at 2:40 PM, Steve Beaver <[email protected]> wrote: > I was up in Seattle at Pemco insurance. They made the decision to leave the > mainframe > In 1995, > > Well its 2022 and they are still on the mainframe > > > > Regards, > > > Steve > > > Steve Thompson > > On 1/19/2024 1:42 PM, Tim Ribble wrote: > > > 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 > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
