In our case, the justification will be (IF we do it) is cost savings. Mainframe software costs are huge and being a state agency, budget is critical. The intangibles are what we are looking at now . Yes your SAS software bill will be
less for yearly maintenance later on, but up front...not. And as Chuck says, you want to do it properly. I have already discovered the 5 layers of admin and
access so that is much different from mainframe admin.
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