Marian Gasparovic wrote:
Why are mainframe people so reluctant to change ? I know cases where
mainframe people refused to implement new applications, so they were
implemented on different platform, old applications were removed as
well as mainframe. I witnessed this situation personaly at one
customer before I joined IBM. Now when I work for IBM in mainframe
market I know the fights we have to fight. Mainframe platform and
people are perceived as least flexible. I repeat - we are perceived as
least flexible.
[...]
Fully agreed. Mainframe specialists I met are most conservative folks I
know. How many of us never used USS shell, how many still prefer IOCP
coding over HCD, how many still use NOEGN, haven't migrated to SMS, etc.
From the other hand: IBM pushes customers to use Linux on z/Series, no
doubt. Otherwise IFL would cost the same as general CP.
It's even funny to observe IBM conferences in Poland: most speaker talk
about Linux, zIIP, etc. while majority of customers listening it use
'the most legacy' applications on z/OS (or OS/390), CICS, VSAM, Adabas,
sometimes DB2.
--
Radoslaw Skorupka
Lodz, Poland
----------------------------------------------------------------------
For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions,
send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO
Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
