Yes, Tim, perennially entertaining. A client I did some work for a couple years ago has been working on a two-year project to dump their mainframe for the past six years; they're still plugging away at it. A year ago they got new a new mainframe box which of course involved upgrading z/OS and a bunch of attendant apps. But it turned out that an old app X wouldn't play nice with the new Omegamon, so they had to put the new mainframe hardware on the shelf for a while. I hear they just finished replacing app X, and are now (re)embarked on the project to upgrade z/OS and all the other stuff and take their shiny new mainframe off the shelf. I haven't yet asked my contacts there how this works with their goal of getting rid of the mainframe.
--- Bob Bridges, [email protected], cell 336 382-7313 /* The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones. -Joseph Joubert (1754-1824) */ -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Tim Ribble Sent: Friday, January 19, 2024 13:42 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
