Converted from VSE and Happy -- MIDRANGE-L

I was a VM/VSE Technical programmer in the mid 80s.  We converted to the AS/400,
and at first I never thought that these little AS/400 (biggest box was a B60, 
the
B70 had not been announced), would  be able to handle our load.  We were right,
but thank god the usual timing of  IT projects crept in and we were delayed 
about
8 months, while the AS/400s just happened to grow during that time frame.  It
took me about 6 months to realize that these AS/400s were the best thing since
sliced breed.  It was evident when the fall came around and we had to change our
clocks.  On the AS/400 it took 5 seconds, on the VM/VSE machine, we had to
regenerate both operating systems VM & VSE to reflect the fact that we were 
going
from +5 to +6 (or whatever it was) time zones from Greenwich mean time.  THat
took about 5-6 hours to regenerate, bring the systems down, and then back up.
What a mess.  That to me is a perfect example of the easy of use of the AS/400
over the VM/VSE systems.

One of the best things about VM was the ability to run a new version as a 
Virtual
guest.  I am looking forward to being able to do the same with V4R4 of OS/400 
(as
told by Frank Soltis at COMMON).

We were a Cobol shop at the time on VSE, and you will find that your COBOL logic
moves over at 100%, but there are a few I/O changes that need to be made. These
can be relegated to a Jr. Programmer, once the first few have been done and a
methodology is in place.

All in all, its the best move we did as a company, and the best move I have done
for my career.


Pete Massiello

Will Townsley wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I am the Director of an IBM VSE data center. We have been
> operating with VSE (mainframe operating system) for 25
> years. Given the growing capability/complexity of VSE and
> our relative marginal growth (k12 education) I have been
> considering the possibility of conversion to another
> platform. I would like to know if anyone else out there
> listening has specifically made the conversion from VSE
> to AS/400 or know someone who tried and gave up.
>
> We currently write all of our own applications in COBOL with
> a little bit of Assembler for batch and interactive (CICS).
> Moving to AS/400 would give us the opportunity to buy packaged
> software when appropriate and move to a less complicated
> environment?
>
> Will Townsley
> Director Data Processing
> BCISD
>
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