Chicago, IL – March 24, 2011 – Clerity Solutions, a full-service provider of mainframe migration, modernization and optimization solutions, will host a Webinar on April 7 with IBM Systems Magazine. The Webinar,
"German Federal Pension Fund Migrates IBM CICS Workloads to Linux on System z," will feature a case study about four divisions of a government agency that administers the pensions of 57 million citizens in Germany. The project migrated a large, central IBM® CICS® application from an IBM z/OS® environment to Linux on IBM System z®.
The Webinar will be held on April 7, 2011 at 11 AM ET. Register to attend at
http://www.clerity.com/pension-fund-webinar.php.
Falk-Oliver Bischoff, from Deutsche Rentenversicherung (DRV) Baden-Württemberg, and Uwe Nitsche, from DRV Baden-Wüerttemberg, Hessen and Saarland, will discuss how using Clerity's UniKix Mainframe Rehosting software to consolidate workloads onto Linux on IBM System z helped lower costs, standardize operations, and enhance IT flexibility. Organizations like DRV are using UniKix technology to move online and batch mainframe applications to scalable Integrated Facility for Linux (IFL) processors without sacrificing functionality or performance.
"We had a limited time frame to complete our migration project and our core mainframe application was quite complex," explained Bischoff, head of IT at DRV Baden-Württemberg. "Clerity's UniKix technology and professional services team enabled us to safely rehost our workload onto a more cost-effective mainframe Linux partition and protect our legacy investments in order to meet federal goals."
The project allowed significant cost savings by reducing expenses for hardware and annual software licensing fees. Approximately 3.5 million lines of code and 2,500 CICS-COBOL programs, serving up to 5,000 simultaneous users, were moved during this migration.
Webinar attendees will learn how DRV planned and completed the project. They will also learn how businesses can benefit from the best practices and lessons learned by the DRV and other organizations to maximize benefits and reduce risk when replatforming legacy workloads.
