So the current vendor has been working on moving you off the mainframe for a year, but ISTR that you have been talking about the plan to do it for many years. How long has that been?
John, I appreciate your posts over the years. You will be missed. Good luck in your retirement, or whatever comes next in your life. -- Tom Marchant On Thu, 30 Mar 2023 07:43:09 -0500, John McKown <john.archie.mck...@gmail.com> wrote: >Actually, Optum Technologies started this project a little over a year ago. >They basically threw money and developers at, a long with telling the users >to "suck it up and deal with it." > >On Thu, Mar 30, 2023, 06:55 Radoslaw Skorupka < >00000471ebeac275-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > >> W dniu 29.03.2023 o 17:16, John McKown pisze: >> > HealthMarkets z9BC is shutting down. User access will be removed 5Apr. >> CICS >> > will be unavailable after 31Mar. The last day is at the end of April. >> Most >> > of the equipment is so old it is being destroyed, except for the tape >> > drives which are being sold for parts. SCRT will be run on 2May. I'll be >> on >> > the payroll until the beginning of August in lieu of severance. >> >> How many years did it take? >> My previous employer (or rather some folks accidentally employed as >> managers) is shutting down the mainframe for 10+ years. >> The results are quite impressive: approx. 0.01% accounts migrated, new >> z15, more MIPS, new tape, new VTS, new mainframe folks... :-) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
