EDS-Avantel

EDS USA, IT service provider, supported one of the most important applications of telephony company, in a Mainframe IBM 9672 Y36  Operating System Z/OS V 1.4.

Problematic.
High hardware and software maintenance cost, plus the management of huge data volumes.

Applications.
Focused on call rating billing.

Situación.
Cobol V programming for batch processing, CICS interactive applications, communication between USA and Mexico, FTP and MQ-Series multiple usage.

Solution.
The evaluation and solution was the migration to IBM PSeries 570 9117, AIX 5.2 operating system. The JCL was converted to Unix shell, Cobol programas converted to IBM VisualAge Cobol Set for AIX, Rexx programs were maintened in Rexx, thus the EasyTrieve programming, the IBM SORT utility was replaced by CoSORT 8.0, CICS interactive applications were migrated to IBM TX-Series. The special utilities (IOF/SDF, GDG'S, FILE-ID, BUNDL, RACF) were substituted by SysViewSoft Production Tools software.

Benefits.
The benefits obtained by Avantel are listed below:

a) Economy. We reduce a lot the costs related to Hardware and Software maintenance with a return of investment of 18 months. With this results we help our client to invest in high technology.

b) Services.We improved notably the elapsed time for batch processes.

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