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 Customer: Shaw Industries, a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway, is the world’s largest carpet maker. With over 30,000 employees and over 100 U.S. manufacturing and distribution facilities, Shaw produces and sells carpet, rugs, ceramic, hardwood, and laminate flooring for residential and commercial applications throughout the world.
Business Needs: Shaw, one of the largest Bull customers in the US for over 20 years, needed to migrate to the IBM mainframe to protect themselves from risk and to provide a big technological step forward in meeting future goals.
Technical Needs: Shaw’s Bull DPS9000/758 Jupiter-II system running GCOS8, IDS-II and TP8 had to be migrated to an IBM 9672-R36 running OS/390, DB2 and CICS. This included eight major application groups, comprising of 3,083 COBOL programs with over 4.5 million lines of code, 900 Betters/Louis-II programs and 828 IDS-II database record types.
Solution: The BluePhoenix PlatformMigrator solution was used to perform the three-year migration process. Using a phased approach, the project was performed in a safe and controlled manner, and completed four months ahead of schedule. Bull’s FlowBus and IBM’s MQSeries Middleware were extensively used to allow bridging of data to occur between platforms. At certain points during the migration over 500,000 transactions were being bridged daily.
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