I can't resist this.
A certain Electric Utility asked some consultants about how to
remediate for Y2K. They were told the best way to do it was to
migrate off their mainframe to some fad app/language. So they
made the cut some months before Y2K and reports they had done on
demand (where do we have xxx Transformer(s) and yyy steel angle
iron) kind of things so they could repair downed lines after a
tornado or straight line winds, now had to scheduled a week in
advance of when they needed them..... No joke.
A few years go by and they have a chance to buy out another
electric utility. And that entity was running on a mainframe.
Guess what they did next?
Steve Thompson
On 1/19/2024 2:55 PM, Bob Bridges wrote:
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.
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