I remember working for a company, back in 1980, that migrated from an IBM
System/3 to an HP3000/Series III in ONE weekend. When the users went home on
Friday (5:00pm) our only non-PC computer was a System/3. When they came in
on Monday (09:00am) it had become an HP3000. It only took 5 of us to do it.
Good huh....

First we dumped the IBM source code (RPG) and JCL to tape and used FCOPY on
the 3000 to load it in. We then ran a job on the 3000 that converted the
source code (used EDITOR with some HP supplied USE files) and then compiled
them. A second job, also used EDITOR and some HP supplied USE files, then
converted the JCL. This was completed by midday Saturday.

We then spent the rest of the weekend testing that everything had migrated
OK.

regards,
Robert W.Mills

-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Wong [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 28 January 2002 23:02
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Subject: Re: NYTimes.com Article: For a Hewlett, Merger Raises a Basic
Fea r


<<Huh?  MPE ran IBM JCL?

I cut my teeth on MVS probably like many in the MPE world. No, MPE didn't
run IBM JCL, but there are way too many similarities. The Job card was the
Job card. The :FILE statement is a  //DISCFILE DD
DSN=FAKE,DCB=(RECFM=FB,...). When I did MPE pre-sales, the JCL conversion
was the easiest part. Now trying to convert IBM IMS DB/DC programs, that
was another challenge <lol>. If they were ISAM, piece of cake.

            Steve, showing his years

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