Case Study: Leading Digital Voice, Connectivity, and Communications Service Providing Company achieves 2-week DB2 mainframe-to-open-system migration with DatAvail

Leading Digital Voice, Connectivity, and Communications Service Providing Company - Customer Case Study

Leading Digital Voice, Connectivity, and Communications Service Providing Company faced an urgent risk when its mainframe DB2 support was being decommissioned and vendor support would expire at month-end — the only offered option was costly extended support at $500,000 per quarter. With trillions of bits of sensitive, 24x7-access data and no internal staff available, the customer asked DatAvail to perform a DB2 mainframe to DB2 open system migration and complete it within two weeks during the holiday season.

DatAvail ran a pilot to identify usable mainframe tools, developed export/validation procedures for the three-terabyte database, and methodically migrated the data to the new DB2 open system. DatAvail completed the full migration within two weeks, provided iterative views so users maintained access during reordering, left sample scripts and multiple original-format copies for recovery, and avoided the half‑million‑dollar quarterly extended‑support cost.