Mainframe CICS to Alternative Platforms
Mainframe CICS applications are expensive to run. There are the obvious expenses such as software licenses and hardware. And then there are the not so obvious expenses that are incurred due to the rigid, proprietary nature of the mainframe CICS environment.
Migration of your mainframe CICS applications to more open platforms can substantially reduce your company’s expenses. These open alternative platforms can process your current workload at a fraction of the cost of the comparable mainframe. The license costs can also be substantially reduced (or, in some cases, eliminated).
Fresh Start IT has helped companies migrate their core back office applications from mainframes running z/OS and VSE to alternative platforms like the Sun Solaris on SPARC and the IBM pSeries running AIX. Mainframe COBOL CICS environments can be ported to these alternative platforms with minimal impact on the source code of the underlying systems.
Fresh Start IT will work with your company to determine the best course of action. Fresh Start IT will integrate your systems into your existing (or newly configured) SAN and backup systems. All internal and external interfaces will be reviewed and resolved. Mainframe JCL will be migrated to shell scripting. Security subsystems will be implemented that parallel (or exceed) the functionality of the mainframe security system.
If your legacy application is still performing, but your hardware costs have spiraled out of control, then a mainframe migration may be in order.
