LOL. A mainframe site in Israel plans to drop the mainframe for 15 years or more. They started with a six years project to convert 4 core systems that will cost 100 million dollars. After 9 years, They ended with 1 completed system out of four that cost 200 M$.
When will they (the new CIOs) ever learn? If it's not broken, don't fix it! *| **Itschak Mugzach | Director | SecuriTeam Software **|** IronSphere Platform* *|* *Information Security Continuous Monitoring for Z/OS, zLinux and IBM I **| * *|* *Email**: i_mugz...@securiteam.co.il **|* *Mob**: +972 522 986404 **|* *Skype**: ItschakMugzach **|* *Web**: www.Securiteam.co.il **|* On Mon, Nov 25, 2024 at 7:39 PM Phil Smith III <li...@akphs.com> wrote: > Bob Nix of AMAX Coal told me about when AMAX decided to get off the > mainframe. To the extent that I recall the details: > > They hired a consultant to do the analysis. He said something like "Five > years" and management said "Too long", fired him, hired another consultant. > Same answer, same result. Third consultant could read the writing on the > wall, said "Two years, no problem". So they went ahead. Two years in, > things were NOT done. And of course the existing staff had largely wandered > away. Finally three years plus later, they were almost done--and another > company swooped in, bought them, and shut them down. Oops. > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf > Of Howard Rifkind > Sent: Monday, November 25, 2024 11:54 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: Heh, "Sabre is Getting Off the Mainframe-One Way or Another" > > The company I worked for many years decided to go in a similar direction. > Needless to say they only had very moderate success, never completed the > project before going out of business. Servers laying all over the computer > room and just one 3090-xxx running VM release 5.xx, 4 MVS O/s, VM under VM > running a real old version of IBM DOS because of an old hardware 3340 issue > (ISAM never converted to VSAM. This story isn't new, seems management just > can't decide which platform is the right box to run the business and get > the most out a buck. > > On Mon, Nov 25, 2024 at 10:27 AM Phil Smith III <li...@akphs.com> wrote: > > > Sabre is Getting Off the Mainframe-One Way or Another > > > > https://planetmainframe.com/2023/06/sabre-is-getting-off-the-mainframe > > -one-way-or-another/ > > > > "No, really, we mean it this time." > > > > And this is almost 18 months old; I can't remember how I came across > > it now, alas. ("Senility: not just a river in Africa") > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send > > email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email > to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
