On 13 Feb 2008 08:21:59 -0800, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Comstock >> Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2008 8:49 AM >> To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU >> Subject: Re: Curious(?) way to ZIP a mainframe file. >> >> >> McKown, John wrote: >> [snip] >> > >> > I don't look for zAAP information on anything. "The >> mainframe is going >> > away" is the mantra and nothing that I have done in the >> past can even >> > get the attention of management. They simply don't seem to >> want to be >> > bothered with the System z in any manner. >> >> John, >> >> I was going through some of my old emails the other day >> and I noticed you writing "the mainframe is dying is the >> motto around here" on July 22, 2005. >> >> So it seems to be taking its own sweet time. Is this >> the kind of situation Stephen Y Odo writes about? He's >> in the 18th year of a five year plan to get rid of >> the mainframe. > >Too true. In fact, the mainframe stayed and management "went away" (was >allowed to persue other interests or some such HR-speak). But the motto >has stayed. > >> >> Maybe someone in your management might be amenable to >> recognizing that the reality is the mainframe is not >> going away at UICI Insurance Center. > >The current management still says that it is going away (despite the >fact that the workload is growing). They base this on the plan to >replace the mainframe software with COTS software running on other >platforms such as Linux (Windows is now considered to be "also ran" >around here). They just haven't really found the COTS software that they >need yet.
Unfortunately even if the mainframe were considered, the probability of finding COTS software that both meets the business need and runs on the mainframe is slim. > >> >> >> Kind regards, >> >> -Steve Comstock ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
