Our mainframe will be replaced within the next 4 years. Lots of my peers are retiring and working part time with the old system, which will help tremendously with the rest wanting to be retrained. We already have Oracle DBAs, so our non-retired IDMS DBA will just move over (He has retired IDMS DBAs working with him). I don't know how our systems people will transition.
I can't afford to retire yet, so if my ticker doesn't get worse, I will transition to the new system. What is interesting to observe is how the Java team will move over. They tend to be young guns who have never gone through a major conversion. As much as I dislike all of the complex procedures of change control and user testing, I don't work with multitude of objects and progressive programming changes. I can't see that switching to PeopleSoft's procedures will be comfortable for them. Their life-cycle will be similar to what I've had - but quicker. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
