As one of the UK’s largest high-street banks, the client depends heavily on Db2 for z/OS for many of its critical IT systems with over 500 million CICS/Db2 transactions being executed in a typical day. The bank had traditionally used a mixture of tooling from IBM/Rocket and BMC Software, but had become increasingly concerned about the timeliness of BMC’s support for new features.
The priority was to close a Schema Change Backout Risk using the IBM Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS and IBM Object Comparison Tool for z/OS.
With this extra functionality and the performance of the IBM/Rocket products being comparable to the BMC equivalents, the bank decided to standardise on IBM/Rocket products.
A team was assembled for the conversion project, with representatives from the bank’s DBAs and application teams, together with experienced specialist external resources provided by IBM and Rocket. Triton consultants were part of this external team and played a key role in the successful delivery of the conversion.
Triton took responsibility for several important aspects of the technical work surrounding the tool replacement, including:
The bank’s conversion project was both complex and risky, with more than 40 separate product enhancements being delivered by IBM/Rocket in order to ensure a smooth transition to the new tooling.
1,646 utility jobs converted a month
As a result, the bank has now solved the Schema Change Backout risk and has been able to take advantage of:
Earlier access to key new Db2 features | |
Improved performance for many critical batch operations | |
A simplified Db2 tooling landscape | |
Significant licence cost savings |
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