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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of DKM
Just over seven years ago, I was hired as the Financial System Administrator
at my place of
emplacement. In my first interview, I was told how they were getting ready
to pick a new ERP and get
off their
The actual start of the migration off the mainframe started shortly after the
current one was purchased. It replaced two older systems was meant to be the
last one.
Still this was more than just a get off the mainframe push, this was a complete
change in culture and philosophy. Up until
Mike Schwab wrote:
On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 4:06 PM, DKM dkmf...@sbcglobal.net wrote:
Just over seven years ago, I was hired as the Financial System Administrator at
my place of emplacement. In my first interview, I was told how they were
getting ready to pick a new ERP and get off their
On 12/16/2011 04:06 PM, DKM wrote:
Just over seven years ago, I was hired as the Financial System Administrator at
my place of emplacement. In my first interview, I was told how they were
getting ready to pick a new ERP and get off their “archaic” mainframe. After I
was hired, the IT director
On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 4:06 PM, DKM dkmf...@sbcglobal.net wrote:
Just over seven years ago, I was hired as the Financial System Administrator
at
my place of emplacement. In my first interview, I was told how they were
getting ready to pick a new ERP and get off their “archaic” mainframe.
I can't help but think about my long time job at PH Mining when reading of
companies taking 10 years to get off the mainframe. I was hired in 1985 to
install MVS on a 3081 running 5 DOS guests and 2 VS1 guests under VM. I was
a little concerned when I would go to a meeting with my boss
Just over seven years ago, I was hired as the Financial System Administrator at
my place of emplacement. In my first interview, I was told how they were
getting ready to pick a new ERP and get off their “archaic” mainframe. After I
was hired, the IT director at the time told me with glee how
Timothy Sipples pisze:
No, it's not at all misleading (CA's prediction that 2009 shipped
incremental mainframe MIPS will exceed all installed mainframe MIPS in
2000). For at least one simple reason: nobody buys mainframe MIPS to let
them sit idle. They are the most highly utilized CPUs on the
On 6 Apr 2009 22:43:03 -0700, Timothy Sipples wrote:
No, it's not at all misleading (CA's prediction that 2009 shipped
incremental mainframe MIPS will exceed all installed mainframe MIPS in
2000)...
Thus MIPS, at least in this context, is an entirely legitimate and proper
way to view mainframe
On Fri, 3 Apr 2009 17:24:00 +0900, Timothy Sipples wrote:
That statistic cited in the above article (and not from IBM) is just
amazing to me: more (new, incremental) MIPS forecast to be sold in 2009
than were *installed* in 2000. Wow.
I wonder how 2009 compares to years past in that regard. Is
On Tue, 7 Apr 2009 09:38:12 -0500 Eric Chevalier said:
On 6 Apr 2009 22:43:03 -0700, Timothy Sipples wrote:
No, it's not at all misleading (CA's prediction that 2009 shipped
incremental mainframe MIPS will exceed all installed mainframe MIPS in
2000)...
Thus MIPS, at least in this context, is an
On 7 Apr 2009 10:24:37 -0700, A. Harry Williams wrote:
a) desktop machines are often powered down at night
Why did you raise this straw-man issue again? Please go back and
re-read my original post: the categories I mentioned EXCLUDED desktop
PCs.
Eric
ps: role, not roll
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We had a job title discussion this morning. We are known as 'server
adminstrators' although we tend to the mainframe.
I don't care what you call me. Give me meaningful work and a paycheck.
MIPS - FLOPS - GHz - who really cares. My mainframe sucks at word
processing. My PC sucks at batch
On 7 Apr 2009 10:34:43 -0700, et...@tulsagrammer.com (Eric Chevalier)
wrote:
ps: role, not roll
I suppose Unix could be rolling.
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write:
My $.0115 - adjusted my .02 cents for the market.
Your units are off. Your comparing dollars to cents. I think you meant
to say:
My $.0115 - adjusted my 2 cents for the market.
BTW, Hi from
Timothy Sipples pisze:
[...]
That statistic cited in the above article (and not from IBM) is just
amazing to me: more (new, incremental) MIPS forecast to be sold in 2009
than were *installed* in 2000. Wow.
Probably the same can be said about desktop PC's. No wow.
My HDD (in PC) is approx 1000
No, it's not at all misleading (CA's prediction that 2009 shipped
incremental mainframe MIPS will exceed all installed mainframe MIPS in
2000). For at least one simple reason: nobody buys mainframe MIPS to let
them sit idle. They are the most highly utilized CPUs on the planet,
running an average
And then there's this:
http://www.esj.com/articles/2009/03/31/Big-Iron-Bucks-Trend.aspx
There's a really interesting experiment going on here. A few shops every
so often depart the mainframe, a few shops acquire them for the first time
(including to run z/OS -- I personally did some work in two
On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 4:24 AM, Timothy Sipples e99...@jp.ibm.com wrote:
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So this is a marketplace contest of sorts to see who's got the most
efficiency (on a quality-adjusted basis) in their IT service delivery.
There are so many very savvy IT organizations betting heavily that the
modern
For those that keep track, yesterday I had the sad duty of shutting down our
z/OS environment for the last time. Ours wasn't a big shop with a single z890
running 2 LPARs (one Production and one sandbox). To help reduce costs for
the last few months, we reduced capacity from a model 240 to
If I retired right now, I would be able to work part time until our
mainframe was gone, and then I would be out of a job.
So I am training in our new system, expecting that when the mainframe
goes away, I can continue working full time. I don't know enough to
have any idea whether I could
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From: Steve Horein steve.hor...@harcourt.com
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Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2009 10:21 AM
Subject: One less mainframe shop
For those that keep track, yesterday I had the sad duty of shutting down
our
z/OS environment
Sorry to here another is down the tubes ... Wish IBM would wake up and
make z/OS more affordable but that would cause waves .. put too many
security people out of work .. lol
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Steve Horein wrote:For those that keep track, yesterday I had the sad
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