On 24/08/2021 9:25 pm, Ed Jaffe wrote:
Yeah, ad hominem and ludicrous stereotypes. "It seems like a waste of
time to get mainframers to think that there is anything that will
ever be as great as JCL." says everything necessary. I devoutly hope
that he gets to work with people who fit that caricature.
Frank is a great supporter of the mainframe -- especially z/OS. Always
has been, always will be.
I suspect his poor choice of words on Reddit (he left out a word and
should have said "SOME mainframers") was prompted by an understandable
frustration with certain intransigent "Luddites" who refuse to accept
reality and actively rail against open source, DevOps, agile
development, automated testing, modern languages, hybrid cloud, or any
other technology adoption by the IBM Z community intended to keep the
mainframe relevant and growing instead of withering away...
Well said! We're going through the process of transitioning from our
traditional tooling to a modern stack using DevOps tools such as Git,
Jenkins, Artifactory etc. It's a requirement for us to scan all of our
code for vulnerabilities using IBM scanners for authorized code or
Polaris and Black Duck for C/C++, Java etc. Having automation kick in to
perform these tasks when merging a Git branch is a game changer. The
days of a sysprog running some JCL job are well and truly over. I have
noticed in my team a split between those who buy in to the new way and
those who don't understand why the way they have been working for the
last 40 years isn't good enough any more. You picked the perfect word
with "intransigent". For the mainframe to survive in the world of cloud
computing is hard enough without the negative reaction to change from
seasoned mainframers. Ironically, the guys pushing the changes are some
our most experienced mainframe guys, including Distinguished Engineers
who work on some of the trickiest systems level code in the company.
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