I went through the computer science program at a university in northeast Ohio (Youngstown State) in the early to mid 1980's and the curriculum back then was already starting to eliminate the mainframe. During a systems class, a student asked what JCL was and the professor said that it was unimportant and would be gone soon. Cobol and Assembler were only electives and they were teaching predominantly PL/I and PASCAL. Very little of what I learned in college was of much use in the real world. 20+ years later and JCL is still an integral part of daily life and so is Cobol for Programmers. Universities were woefully inadequate in preparing IT people for the real world.
Bill Johnson Systems Programmer Antares Management Solutions 23700 Commerce Park Rd. Beachwood, Ohio 44122 216-292-0400 x3478 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom Harper Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2006 6:10 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Curiosity Computer Science departments have little knowledge of the mainframe world in the first place. Almost all computer science chairpersons in a recent phone survey said that they thought mainframes went away in the 1990's. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This message is intended only for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed and may contain information that is privileged, confidential or exempt from disclosure by law. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, or the employee or agent responsible for delivering the message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that you are strictly prohibited from printing, storing, disseminating, distributing or copying this message. If you have received this message in error, please notify us immediately by replying to the message and deleting it from your computer. Neither this information block, the typed name of the sender, nor anything else in this message is intended to constitute an electronic signature, unless a specific statement to the contrary is included in this message. Thank you, Antares Management Solutions. ============================================================================== ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
