This company went into the equivalent of Chapter 11 i.e. placed under semi-judical management. . Purchased IBM 4341 and VM/SP 3.0 and VSE (2?) outright.
Cancelled all software maintenance contracts. Runs high performance MRP package under native VM. Mantis, CICS, Wages, etc etc under VSE. I s now coming out of the red and performing well business wise. Major cash-flow and lending problem to migrate to latest release of Hardware and software for Y2k. Potential option to downsize to Server/390 technology, BUT proprietary MRP DB/DC drivers will not work under ESA.
Specific CP mode modifications to VM nucleus. CP feature no longer available in latest ESA Y2K ready SCP.
This guy is now painted into a corner. A major option must be to "zap" his existing "old" software to work reasonably into 2000. VM/SP is not the problem, that option has been taken care of already. But the old VSE/CICS is a real problem. This is a "Class 4 Y2k object", a high end Cinderella.