Posted by Trevor Eddolls on Saturday, January 14, 2012 - 300 views
Every year, about this time, mainframe users are excited to get their hands on the latest edition of the Arcati Mainframe Yearbook. What makes the Yearbook stand out is that it’s an excellent reference work for all IBM mainframe professionals – no matter how many years of experience they have.
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Posted by Mike on Thursday, October 7, 2010 - 777 views
October 7th 2010 signaled the end of a ten month project to migrate a world leader in investment banking off their legacy Software AG application platform, Natural/Adabas to Cobol/DB2. The objective of the project was primarily to cut costs in maintaining and operating older technology and to consolidate infrastructure in accordance with corporate standards.
In the middle of 2009 a large IT Services provider approached MOST to collaborate in modernizing the bank’s application portfolio. MOST was identified as having the migration technology and tools, the people skills and the track record to do the project, in what was understood to be an extremely aggressive time frame. The project called for migrating data, applications and all the environmental components that comprise a fully functioning production system by no later than August 2010.
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