For those not aware of this IBM has been offering free web COBOL classes and have been getting hundreds of people in attendance, many of whom are new mainframe programmers. They are also offering a free class on the IDZ/Data Studio products (ECLIPSE based products for Cobol, SQL and other languages). The IDZ class is Monday morning at 9am and you can listen in without pre-registering. They same URL is used for the Cobol class tue and Thursday at 9am.
https://ibm.webex.com/webappng/sites/ibm/dashboard/pmr/jsayles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Rupert Reynolds Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2020 5:39 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Still COBOL After All These Years? Yup. I'm a C, PL/1, assembly and C bigot myself, but the plain truth is that COBOL is mostly just a wordier way of doing the same things that other languages do. And re-writing, if it isn't done very thoughfully, tends to make things worse in my experience. Rupert On Thu, 16 Jul 2020 at 18:34, Seymour J Metz <[email protected]> wrote: > The claim that COBOL is English like is every bit as bogus as the > claim that rewriting existing COBOL applications in another language > will magically fix problems of underfunding, understaffing and general > mismanagement. > > BTW, when the language du jour is out of fashion, will they want to > rewrite the application again, with the same pretext? And will they > ensure that this time they have adequate documentation and adequate > configuration control? > > > -- > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz > https://gcc02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http:%2F%2Fmason.g > mu.edu%2F~smetz3&data=02%7C01%7Cebarkow%40doitt.nyc.gov%7Cf42ed3fa > ccf04d8df37808d829d0c164%7C73d61799c28440228d4154cc4f1929ef%7C0%7C0%7C > 637305323873906629&sdata=hmRKEyNhdJ1odSt1%2BDIDWTFCtn9jGyHRjjymg0s > F%2FtQ%3D&reserved=0 > > ________________________________________ > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] on > behalf of Mark Regan [[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2020 11:41 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Fwd: Still COBOL After All These Years? > > > https://gcc02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsecu > re-web.cisco.com%2F19k8avmi-YYFlfmZHhyBAdtguogqzS24H_g526jDKwAuDJUdFKv > K4b9dP9NcILr6om3tw4RhCCIL8iT9BRoOhdYIdQpvVVzS2c_cErzDaoNHdWoKdxwNo0_LN > CkQ5Q9AIihrnv0b2oCTrVYzZ9O23w9QsveuJH0QsJNKF9tSBOF3rS_d_kGctATEyIoNolL > RFy1yU9H3ENyZd3ZvmfBWBmUQsXrzE4veTALPgCSsnFBqWR-RJkMc8a0gzcX1geNF4SWwD > LIOOB3-CkgncGVl-o3ZPVrOUaxN39tIcdi5zG_BgfrZtYg2jrrDgm8fVbuj1Rig0AbPqTi > Zp0zGEpV1WRm1fEOzLC-GlMrQmDfLCf-_TPArnN2DxmfqG2EAwazkHfZgpkjUSFmeJBljd > rt-Hx5O5ld9E7gz44hwDCvlbcdiiwu32WhgigdlBgVQ99tKX%2Fhttps%253A%252F%252 > Fwww.planetmainframe.com%252F2020%252F07%252Fstill-cobol-after-all-the > se-years%252F&data=02%7C01%7Cebarkow%40doitt.nyc.gov%7Cf42ed3faccf > 04d8df37808d829d0c164%7C73d61799c28440228d4154cc4f1929ef%7C0%7C0%7C637 > 305323873906629&sdata=KWQcINoTzw2wLoli0SNJdk1peTSd0D89IrQtEBNP0lg% > 3D&reserved=0 > > Regards, > > Mark Regan > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send > email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send > email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ________________________________ This e-mail, including any attachments, may be confidential, privileged or otherwise legally protected. It is intended only for the addressee. If you received this e-mail in error or from someone who was not authorized to send it to you, do not disseminate, copy or otherwise use this e-mail or its attachments. Please notify the sender immediately by reply e-mail and delete the e-mail from your system. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
