Case Studies

Meet Drew: Gen Z Meets IBM Z

tslHasRoot — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 21:33:26 +0000

IBM has been working to bridge the mainframe skills gap by creating and running the IBM Z Global Skills Accelerator Program to help companies across the world build a sustainable mainframe workforce. At PSR, our new employee Drew Grone is a Global Skills Accelerator success story. Drew loves to share his experiences at PSR and…

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Affordable Mainframe Virtual Tape

Anthony Goddard — Mon, 18 Dec 2023 21:14:45 +0000

Challenge: Aging, soon-to-be unsupported tape infrastructure, but limited capital funds to modernize Objective: Affordable virtual tape solution Industry: Manufacturing Solution: PSR’s Mainframe Virtual Tape as a Service Bundle moved the customer from a CapEx to an OpEx financial model while providing a modern virtual tape infrastructure. Scenario: Committed to mainframes, this manufacturing client was looking…

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A Disaster Recovery Plan that Works

Anthony Goddard — Mon, 18 Dec 2023 21:13:40 +0000

Challenge: Disaster Recovery plan looked OK … on paper. Objective: Business Resiliency through an affordable DR plan that actually works Industry: Technology Solution: PSR’s Disaster Recovery service Scenario: This technology company’s mainframe drives its business. It delivers data and analytics services to customers across the globe. If the mainframe were to go offline for any period…

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Finding the Right Mainframe Skills at the Right Price

Anthony Goddard — Mon, 18 Dec 2023 21:12:28 +0000

Challenge: Finding expert mainframe skills Objective: Staff the systems programmer position to match actual business requirements Industry: Finance/Insurance Solution: PSR’s client staff augmentation supported the gradual transfer of system programming responsibility to PSR. Scenario: The planned retirement of this finance and insurance company’s system programmer presented the CIO with the challenge of finding a replacement…

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Retiring a Mainframe

Anthony Goddard — Mon, 18 Dec 2023 21:11:14 +0000

Challenge: One last mission-critical application prevented the decommissioning of the mainframe Objective: Retire the mainframe Industry: Public Sector – Higher Education Solution: Move the application to PSR’s hosted mainframe. Scenario: Many years into an effort to retire the mainframe at this major university, one final mission-critical application running on the mainframe had still not been…

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Mainframe Disk Replication

Anthony Goddard — Mon, 18 Dec 2023 21:10:02 +0000

Challenge: Optimize mainframe recovery times to compete in new industry Objective: Increase mainframe capacity to meet industry requirements and establish reliable reputation Industry: Manufacturing Solution: Implement new mainframe with offsite-replicated, hybrid flash storage Scenario: A raw materials supplier wanted to expand into the automotive industry and form a reputation for being a viable supplier in the marketplace. The…

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System Upgrade from z800 Ensures Ongoing Support

Anthony Goddard — Mon, 18 Dec 2023 21:08:47 +0000

Challenge: Aging, dated mainframe and storage were losing vendor support Objective: Upgrade to modern, vendor-supported mainframe and storage Industry: Direct Marketing Solution: PSR Systems Programming and IBM Business Partner Solutions for z Systems Scenario: The customer had been operating for some time with an unsupported zOS release, and had concluded that it was not upgradeable. Even if they…

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Replacing a Retiring Mainframe Systems Programmer

Anthony Goddard — Mon, 18 Dec 2023 21:05:47 +0000

Challenge: Replace the services and expertise of a zOS Systems programmer retiring after 35 years Objective: Ensure the mainframe environment remains properly supported Industry: Insurance Solution: Provide mainframe support via PSR Systems Programming Service plan coverage for zOS Scenario: The company’s mainframe systems programmer, John, had worked at the firm for over 35 years, and had significant technical, operational,…

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Migrating to a Hosted Mainframe

Anthony Goddard — Mon, 18 Dec 2023 21:04:49 +0000

Support Challenge:  A city government office was running critical property tax workloads on an N-4 mainframe, end-of-service DASD, and an unsupported back-level version of z/OS. The N-4 system was not capable of running supported software. There was no disaster recovery (DR) strategy other than an on-premises SAN-based VTS copy of their data. Their newly hired…

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