Next steps

This project covered just one batch transaction, one COBOL program out of three that are executed every night, and one of the JCL streams. This was the initiation of the project, however, and not the final solution. The full project is to move all member 401K processing off the mainframe. In order to achieve this, the following activities are planned as either one or many smaller projects:

• Complete new member transaction type to make production-ready: Reliability, Availability, Scalability and Performance (RASP) were not part of the POV. In order for the new member processing to be moved off the mainframe, RASP must be built into the architecture. This includes adding parallel processing, processing restart at point of failure, notifications, monitoring, tuning of the process, dynamically adding hardware and software resources, and automatic failure.

• Move other transaction types off the mainframe: This involves orchestration of other batch COBOL programs as web services using...