I hear ya, too bad leadership does now have the same insight;
the last site I worked was working towards getting off the MF and
spending many $$$$ for a x86 (32bit) solution - once the POC was a bust,
IBM came in a gave them a deal they could not refuse.
been working in the corporate world since 1977, in 1987 the second site
I was at we were told the mainframe was going away, distributed systems
were all the rage...
I learned what I could about Win, Dec Open/Vms old Dec (PDP), SCS
systems, AIX, and some others I don't remember, and I'm still working on
mainframe systems.
Thanks Dave for your insight
Carmen
On 8/18/2022 2:32 PM, Gibney, Dave wrote:
We drug 10 years out of a z9. Last several years, it would have been cheaper
(hardware maintenance and z/OS license charges) to upgrade to current model
minus 1 or even current model.
But, the mainframe was going away..... Our 5 year contract with a MFaaS site
runs out in October and it is looking like we will not be running z/OS after
that.
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thanks, yes we got as much bang out of the box as we could before EOS,
and the plan was to 'outsource' or move the prod processing to a cloud
provider. now it looks like leadership has decided to purchase a new
processor, but they'd like to get every bit of juice out of this box
before they 'NEED' replace it.
thanks for your response
Carmen
On 8/18/2022 2:22 PM, Radoslaw Skorupka wrote:
AFAIK it is not yet announced, but it seems it could be 2026 or 2027.
I mean EOS - end of support.
However this is one of several "end of life" dates. You cannot
purchase any upgrade to z13, including microcode activation of
resources already present in the machine.
z/OS 2.5 still supports z13, so most of the software will work on it
as well (there are exceptions).
So, the platform is moribund - it is still supported, but no HW
upgrades and it seems z/OS 2.6 will not support it. Good time to
change it.
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