tas&doug.davis&mfusage&6.0.0&&&mfusage&&&bcarico@actscorp.com&N.Y.N.N.Y.N.N 1.1.o.o.o.N.0&mfusage.001&mfusage.002&mfusage.003&mfusage.004&mfusage.005&mfusage.006 &::1.0:1:1:0&::2.0:1:1:0&::3.0:1:1:0&::4.0:1:1:0&::5.0:1:1:0&::undefined.0:1:1:0 &The exact number is hard to come up with, but as far as employees it is in tens of thousands, customers in the hundreds of thousands.
The mainframe is a central part of company, and provides customer information, intra day activities, and relationship data. It also hosts many of our loan systems, as well as commercial bank systems. ::&This is dependent on the line of business. In Retail our transaction volumes are several hundred /sec. across CICS and IMS DC. There is a similar rating in our commercial business. To be to the point, some of the largest volumes in the Retail Industry. We also have TPF serving our mainframe middleware, that provides tens of millions of transactions/day.::&Primarily as a data server, but we do run several very key applications as well. As stated previously this is the core information needed to run our business. ::&We run our Home Finance application on WebSphere AS V5. We have applications now exploiting the SOAP features of CICS. We have not exploited the cost benefits of zAAP, but we do have a major zLinux initiative that will defintely exploit IFL.::&The mainframe is a key component of our IT Infrastructure, and we are continuing to invest (where it makes sense) in the mainframe.::&I would like to have any use of the information cleared with me first.:: Not Scored by Definition