Those cards and devices are using third parties. You know that. The smarter
way to handle this conversion is to have everything in parallel, and after
close of business on Saturday, upload the transactions from the iSeries to
the Oracle boxes. Yes, one big iSeries is being replaced by seven Oracle
servers.
What fun!
Paul Nelson
Cell 708-670-6978
Office 409-267-4027
nelsonp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
-----Original Message-----
From: Midrange-NonTech [mailto:midrange-nontech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of John Yeung
Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2014 12:55 PM
To: Non-Technical Discussion about the IBM i (AS/400 and iSeries)
Subject: Re: Please read this important conversion information.
On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 12:33 PM, Paul Nelson <nelsonp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Did your clerical people stop taking orders while your conversion was
happening?
Surely they didn't, but RBFCU isn't completely shutting down all
operations either. They say you will still be able to use your RBFCU
credit and debit cards, and all RBFCU ATMs will remain in service.
They will also have phone representatives (to answer questions, not
perform transactions) available 24/7 throughout the weekend.
I don't run a bank. This seems like a reasonable level of downtime
service (and a reasonable amount of advance notice) to me, personally.
Others may of course disagree. It also remains to be seen whether the
conversion will work out for them. I wouldn't advise switching to
Oracle from IBM i, but that doesn't mean it *can't* be done
successfully. I'm interested to see how it shakes out.
John Y.
midrange.com
