LCM, Belgium’s largest health insurer, has migrated its mainframe databases to a new information system, with the help of legacy modernisation specialist Anubex.
The databases contained data on all patients covered by LCM, equivalent to almost half the population of Belgium.
The data was migrated as part of an ongoing initiative from LCM to improve the use of its information systems by modernising its classic mainframe application environment.
LCM’s CIO, Alan Conrath, said: “With such amounts of data, it was crucial to us that nothing would get lost. And in this Anubex has succeeded.”
Anubex and the LCM IT department worked together to complete the final migration stage during the New Years weekend earlier this month.
On Friday 4 January, 4500 LCM staff were using programs running on the BS2000 mainframe, and when business resumed the next working day, all operations were able to be continued on a HP/UX Unix system.
The work that took place was the result of over two years of preparation, simulation, and testing. The time was also necessary to perfect the many interfaces with external systems, such as the Belgian Crossroads Bank for Social Security.
The migration involved over 30TB of data and 9 million lines of program code.
LCM say that it is now equipped with a flexible information system that will allow it better adapt to the needs of its users and customers.
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