Preserve skills. Control costs. Evolve your systems without breaking anything.
A Mainframe that works doesn't need to be replaced. But retirements, running costs and integration difficulties can hold back the whole company. East2i relies on Mainframe specialists with more than 40 years of combined experience, with one clear goal: your teams running their system on their own.
Each of these signs is an operational risk before it is a technical problem.
And their knowledge isn't written down anywhere.
COBOL, CICS, Db2, JCL or z/OS operations only partly mastered.
MIPS/MSU consumption and licences going up, without more business.
Cloud, ERP, CRM, API: everything takes months.
Production windows are no longer enough.
Nobody dares change them, for lack of documentation.
Three pillars of our offer, each with its intervention and deliverables.
Skills audit, mapping of critical knowledge, mentoring by senior experts, COBOL, z/OS, CICS, Db2 and operations training, gradual handover of responsibilities.
Deliverables: skills map · training programme · operations documentationAnalysis of MIPS/MSU consumption, batch jobs, workloads, storage and software contracts; operations optimised without lowering service levels.
Deliverables: cost analysis · costed recommendations · action planArchitecture audit, API integration (z/OS Connect where compatible), middleware, DevOps, automated testing, gradual application modernisation.
Deliverables: architecture diagram · API roadmap · technical pilotNo confidential technical information is requested. Your answers stay in your browser.
You stay in control of your system, your priorities and your investments. The audit is always quoted separately from what follows.
| Module | Intervention | Financial commitment |
|---|---|---|
| M0 | Audit and recommendations report | Fixed audit fee, separate quote |
| M1 | Documentation and knowledge transfer | Independent budget |
| M2 | Running cost optimisation | Independent budget |
| M3 | API integration and interoperability | Budget per scope |
| M4 | Application modernisation | Budget per application or batch |
| M5 | Training and ongoing support | Fixed fee or progressive programme |
Each module has its own technical description, deliverables, schedule, acceptance criteria and financial proposal. Some have prerequisites: M4 usually requires M1, so that the team understands the code it changes. East2i chooses the specialists according to the module, the related integrations and the size of the estate.
The questions, the prerequisites and the criteria we will be judged on.
| Topic | Questions |
|---|---|
| Estate | Which critical applications? How many programs, how many batch jobs? |
| Skills | Who masters what? Planned retirements? Level of newcomers? |
| Costs | How have MIPS/MSU and software costs evolved over 3 years? Current contracts? |
| Integration | Which systems must talk to the Mainframe? How today? |
| Operations | Recurring incidents? Batch windows? Continuity plan? |
| Strategy | Keep, optimise, integrate, modernise or migrate? Any decision already made? |
| Indicator | Measure |
|---|---|
| Skills coverage | Critical knowledge mastered by at least 2 internal people |
| Documentation | Share of critical applications documented |
| Running cost | Evolution of MIPS/MSU and software bill |
| Integration lead time | Time to expose a new service via API |
| Stability | Production incidents before / after |
| Autonomy | Interventions carried out without an external expert |
Regional mutual insurer, 800,000 members, contracts and claims managed on a Mainframe since 1992, a team of 9.
3 COBOL/CICS experts retire within 30 months. The 4 recent developers only partly master the environment. Software bill up 18% in 3 years. The member portal has waited a year for access to claims data.
3-week M0 audit, report with 4 modules. The insurer activates M1 (6 months of senior expert / developer pairs), then M3 (claims API for the member portal). M2 is planned for the following year.
| Indicator | Before | Target at 12 months |
|---|---|---|
| Critical knowledge shared | 30% | 85% |
| Critical applications documented | 20% | 70% |
| Claims in the member portal | None | Live via API |
Fictitious organisation based on a common situation in insurance and banking. Illustrative figures, not actual results.
Every euro is committed module by module.
60-minute conversation with a Mainframe specialist.
Free, no commitmentTechnical and operational audit, report, estimated budget per module.
€4,000 to €12,000 excl. VAT depending on estate sizeActivated one by one according to your priorities and budget.
Quoted module by moduleOur aim is not to make you dependent on external experts. It is to pass their experience on to your teams.← Back to the East2i home page