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Full text of ' THE NEWSWEEKLY OF INFORMATION SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT March 4. 9 116 Pages ■ $2/Copy ■ $48/ Year GOMPUTERWORL Canadian credit firm rates OS/2 Extended a net risk Version 1.2's host links, IBM service fall flat BY MICHAEL FITZGERALD CW STAFF HALn^AX, Nova Scotia — Dis- tribute mainframe functions to networked PCs? For Trans Can- ada Credit Corp., that promise proved too good to be true. Problems with IBM's OS/2 Extended Edition Version 1.2 have forced the company to abandon plans to implement an ambitious 150-site network and instead put the application on a cheaper IBM mainframe and dumb terminal setup. TCC, a subsidiary of $15 bil- lion-in-assets Central Guaranty Trustco Ltd., said OS/2 Extend- ed Edition has problems with functionality, remote network, management issues and IBM's inability to provide effective ser- vice. Things are different Each of TCC's offices was to run its operations from an OS/2 net- work connected to a host IBM 3090 mainframe in Toronto. Now, a combination of the 3090, IBM 3174 controllers, dumb ter- minals and stand-alone Personal System/2s will run the offices.
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Dan Montgomery, manager of distributed systems at Central Guaranty Trust, said technical glitches such as interface prob- lems between OS/2 and CICS on the host stalled the project after 30 sites had been rolled out, leading to its eventual demise. Despite these problems, TCC will continue with a stabilized and functional OS/2 in its branch offices until it implements the IBM 3 174 controllers and termi- nals. 'The experience has been unfortunate, but the system is not a major operational or finan- cial problem because the system has been stabilized in the 30 branches that have it, and we'll Continued on page 7 IBM users get outsource itch BY CLINTON WILDER CW STAFF FRAMINGHAM, Mass. — IBM mainframe-based shops are far more inter- ested in outsourcing than companies using other hardware platforms, ac- cording to research that will be presented this month by International Data Corp. More than 30% of the 264 IBM mainframe users surveyed said they are ei- ther considering or active- ly pursuing outsourcing, compared with about 18% of the entire survey base. IDC, a market research firm, surveyed 1,500 U.S.
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