EDS-Aeromexico

EDS IT services provider, supported operations of Aeromexico airline in a Mainframe IBM 9672 R24 , operating system OS /390 V 2.9.

Problematic.
Hardware and software high maintenance costs and the request of Aeromexico of continues improvement and quality in services at lower cost.

Applications.
Focused on administration and control of airport operations for airline, accounting and statistics of activities.

Situation.
Cobol V programs for batch processing, Mantis interactive applications, communication to USA , MQ-Series and FTP multiple usage.

Solution.
The evaluation and decision pointed to migration to Sun Solaris V880 8 CPUS 900 Mghz. All JCL was converted to Unix shells, Cobol programs converted to Microfocus Cobol Server Express, Mantis applications converted to Unix Mantis. The automation utilities were built for the proper technologies.

Benefits.
The benefits obtained by EDS and Aeromexico are listed below:

a) Business continuity. The migration process did not affect the airline operations continuity.

b) Economic. We reduce the costs related to Hardware and Software maintenance with a return of investment of 24 months.

c) Services. We improved considerably the response time for the Online End Users.

d) Technologic benefit. The new platform permit us incorporate added benefits to the migration, such as: developments focused on Data Base, Data Ware house and Web