Problem Statement
One of Japan’s largest securities firm wanted the Business-critical trading and securities applications batch system migrated and integrated into an open environment, with a goal of reducing overall TCO. Their end goal was to move to a modern agile platform, enabling rapid response to internal and external changes and same time quickly get ROI.
Business Challenge
- Successfully Migrated one of Japan’s largest securities firm from mainframe to OpenFrame with ~60% TCO reduction.
- Of the 400 NRL projects, this was the only project completed before the deadline (10 months) and within budget.
- Developed the infrastructure enabling rapid response to internal and external changes.
- The project results in reduced development time and costs involved in the target environment.
- Existing human resources already trained and accustomed to the mainframe applications easily migrated to the new systems with minimal retraining.
The Solution
Environment Prior/After Rehosting
Existing
- Software Environment: MVS, IMS/DB, PL/I, COBOL, VSAM
- 3375 Batch jobs, 2161 PL/I copies
- ~200 MIPS
Target Solution
- OpenFrame, Tmax (TP-Monitor), Tibero, OpenStudio, SysMaster
Industry
Financial