The reality doesn’t matter. The perception will drive decisions like this. Just like the Cloud sucked work into it only to discover that it was more expensive than on-prem.
Here is the tool they are likely looking for: https://newsroom.ibm.com/2023-08-22-IBM-Unveils-watsonx-Generative-AI-Capabilities-to-Accelerate-Mainframe-Application-Modernization Matt Hogstrom “It may be cognitive, but, it ain’t intuitive." — Hogstrom > On Aug 29, 2023, at 11:53 AM, Rick Troth <[email protected]> wrote: > > "Nor is the watchdog happy about the tax agency’s continued use of COBOL, > which they note, > could lead to 'difficulty finding employees with such knowledge,' adding that > this > 'shortage of expert personnel available to maintain a critical system creates > significant risk to an agency’s mission.'" > > I'm not a COBOLer, but this is ignorance on part of the GAO as they listen to > popular marketeering from a number of voices in our industry. > > COBOL is *not* a dead language. Dr. Cameron Seay has been teaching COBOL to > his students in Tennessee and Carolina for years, rewarding their academic > efforts with high paying jobs and a fair amount of renown. > > To confirm the viability of COBOL, I ran a quick compile, link, and execute > this morning. This was on PC hardware running Linux and was done via shell > script rather than JCL. COBOL is not only alive and well but works great on > non-mainframe systems. > > The most reliable code is code which you don't have to modify. Salesmen > calling for replacement of COBOL simply because of its age are trying to sell > you something. Beware their snake oil. Working COBOL is far better than > untested (even as yet unwritten) Java, or even C or Python. Ditching COBOL > because of its age as a language is illogical. It's another gubmint mandate > likely to ramp-up costs on the overburdened US taxpayers but fail to deliver > on promises. > > A smarter direction is to ensure currency of supporting systems and then > integrate with the newfangled shiny things. Hopefully the IBM contract will > help the GAO see the light. > > -- R; <>< > > > On 8/28/23 18:48, Mike Schwab wrote: >> https://planetmainframe.com/2023/08/mandates-and-talent-shortages-are-driving-big-spending-on-modernization/ >> >> IBM is one contractor. >> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
