This last week, I was charged with shutting down a z10 running z/OS at
Vidant Health Systems at Pitt County Memorial Hospital in Greenville,
NC. For what it's worth, the process of getting off the mainframe to a
server-based system took longer than the original planners thought. It
was about 4 years ago that the main hospital applications were converted
to a server-based application, which hasn't managed to be as stable and
reliable as the old main-frame system was (no real surprise there). In
that time, the original 990 was replaced by a smaller z10 to continue to
provide the services left on the mainframe (until they could be provided
by vendor solutions off the mainframe).
This was the first time in nearly 50 years that I ever shut down a
mainframe that wasn't being replaced by a newer one. Sad to see it happen.
I believe there is at least one mainframe still operating east of I-95
in NC and that would be at BB&T in Wilson, NC. If there are others, I
would be interested in knowing where these might be. I know there are
several west of I-95.
Mike Myers
Mentor Services Corporation
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