Howdy_Pete_Cics_to_Risc

["O'Connor, Peter H." <102736.3535@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Tim asks: "We have been delayed but will be going from CICS to RISC in a
week or two.
I would like as much help as you can give. We are going to do a


side-by-side from a E60 to a 530... We will have plenty of disk and

memory but have a lot of unobservable cobol applications. I plan on doing

the conversion of them and then restoring to the new machine and then a
backup of the 3.2 machine and then restore the user data to the Risc 3.7
machine.. Any thoughts?"

I would recommend recompiling all the unobservable code on the CISC system
and test them out on CISC.  Then when you do the final save, you will have
all observable code on CISC.   It is much easier to test on CISC when you
have to time.  If you have to move the upgrade to another weekend or two,
big deal.  It is better than upgrading to RISC and then trying to recompile
and test on RISC.  The main reason that I suggest this is because of
Murphy.  Do as much on CISC as possible.   I had a company using my CISC to
RISC object conversion tool and they had Murphy come to visit.  Here are
some of their  problems, (1). RST* blow up on RISC, (2). Transformers
burned out, (3). Fire Department came, (4). Evaculated building, (5). 30
systems abnormally powered down because of electric problems, (6). Message
queues filled even at wrap.  With 1,400 libraries and 200,000+ objects,
this was not a happy day except that object conversion only took an hour. 
Murphy factor, 10-20% of the ESTOBJCVN time.  

Peter H. O'Connor
PAE Inc.
7 Riverway Rd.
Salem, MA 01970-5343
508-744-8612(T)
508-745-7945(F)
e-mail 102736.3535@compuserve.com


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