Hey, I remember that "old m/f" when it was a brand new m/f. Back when eThekwini Municipality was known as Durban Corporation, I'm thinking 1988 timeframe, the company I worked for then, Persetel, replaced an (I'm going to say, but memory may fail me here) ICL mainframe with one of our Hitachi boxes, as well as running the project to convert all applications off the ICL and rewriting everything on to run on MVS using Ideal/Datacom.
I wasn't directly involved as I was site Systems Engineer on several of Persetel's other major accounts in Durban, Toyota, Prefcor and KwaZulu Government (my favorite account, the drive from Durban up to Ulundi is just splendid). My colleague and all round great guy Tony Yates was site SE for the Corporation. -----Original Message----- From: Elardus Engelbrecht <[email protected]> To: IBM-MAIN <[email protected]> Sent: Tue, 9 Sep 2014 11:21 Subject: Re: Another shop that has -- no, wait, what? Elardus Engelbrecht wrote: From private correspondence: That municipality has an old m/f and has upgraded to a new z Box. Some applications were carried over, but there are now a good dose of SLES11 SP2 or SP3 there with a good lot of applications ported/developed over there. "The eThekwini Municipality, a government organization in the province of KwaZulu-Natal that provides civic services to the approximately 3.5 million citizens of Durban, South Africa. Utilizing an IBM infrastructure, the government reduced the number of physical servers in its environment by 67 percent and reduced infrastructure complexity by 80 percent. As a result, it was able to improve time savings by 90 percent and launch new products 92 percent faster." ......etc..... This is not one shop, but many shops which are moving over to z Boxes to use zLinux on z/VM. Groete / Greetings Elardus Engelbrecht ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
