I thought the group be interested in the comments from an IBM system
Programmer about Mainframe costs. The article is at:
>http://searchdatacenter.techtarget.com/tip/
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(watch the wrap)
Systems programmers
"We resolve to get out more."
Systems programmers, particularly old grouches such as me, tend to
cocoon themselves in ivory towers. The view is nice and the height
allows us to view mere mortals from above. It also gives us the
solitude we need to contemplate deep technical issues and weigh
involved workload dispatching algorithms.
We started building our towers back when we ran the computers and
were allowed to work things at our own pace. Now the pace is set by
the Internet, our business users and, by extension, our customers. We
also have to deal with code hurriedly developed by overworked,
harried application programmers too busy to do much more than throw
this weeks' code release into production. But systems programmers
need to help tackle these problems. It's also a chance for us to
demystify the mainframe and share our point of view.
This is going to be a great year if everyone would just follow my
sage-like advice. Somehow I don't think that will happen, though.
Instead, I'll try to make this year better than the last with more of
what I like about my job and less of what I can do without.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: For 24 years, Robert Crawford has worked off and on
as a CICS systems programmer. He is experienced in debugging and
tuning applications and has written in COBOL, Assembler and C++ using
VSAM, DLI and DB2.
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