I heard that when Alcon (another fine Fort Worth company) moved their order entry system from z/OS CICS to an AS400-hosted application their response time went from sub-second to something like an average of around 15 seconds. They subsequently started taking orders on paper and keying in the data later. The migration was however considered a success because of the money saved in software license costs...
Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith Co. -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of John McKown Sent: Friday, December 12, 2008 7:56 AM Oh, I'm on the iSeries list because we are very likely going to convert from z to i towards the end of 2009. My manager has talked to a lot of shops who have actually done this and are very pleased. Especially since the cost for the same level of functionality and responsiveness is less than 1/2 the cost of the z/OS. My manager has indicated that the entire package being discussed costs about the same as just the base z/OS license cost (just z/OS itself with no "optional" or vendor software). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
