> and on dialysis I'm sorry to hear that.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of John McKown [john.archie.mck...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2023 11:43 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Almost gone Ah, the original desire has been around for a couple of decades. It was actually once. But the performance, increased difficulty of use, and cost caused the company to back off. A big waste of time and money. But Optum Technologies has a "Drive to five" initiative to go to 5 Windows based software platforms. And they are willing to pay the cost. I'm 70 and on dialysis, so I really don't mind. I also have minor access to a 2.5 system if I want to do a small amount of playing around. On Thu, Mar 30, 2023, 09:48 Tom Marchant < 0000000a2a8c2020-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > 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 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
