---------- Original Message ---------- From: Bernd Oppolzer <bernd.oppol...@t-online.de> To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Is the IBM Assembler List still alive Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2023 09:28:10 +0200
Not true. I'm currently working for 2 customers (insurance companies), both use "high level" languages like COBOL and PL/1 (and C), but in both companies there is a need for ASSEMBLER coding now and then, be it enhancement to compile supporting routines retrieving sources from CA Librarian libraries (where the software supplier does it wrong) or diagnose programs for checking out IBM errors in CICS web service interfaces or maintenance for tools that the customer wrote in the 1980s (in ASSEMBLER) etc. etc. In both companies I'm the only person who still can code ASSEMBLER, and that's the reason why I'm always busy and still working (I'm 64 now). Furthermore, if you know ASSEMBLER, you can support the COBOL and PL/1 co-workers, when it comes to performance analysis and dump reading etc., because you can tell the meaning of the statements around the error location by looking at the machine code or the ASSEMBLER code in compile listings If you still have a large ASSEMBLER code base, you also need people capable of managing it; unfortunately, management does not always accept this simple truth. Same goes, if you plan to migrate such applications to another platform; you will never succeed, if you don't listen to the ASSEMBLER experts who know what's inside the applications. Fun fact: in a migration project, which ran into problems recently because of bad analysis and planning, the management now calls the people with knowledge "insiders" ... much the same way like insiders in stock trade. This IMO is very disrespectful; we didn't refuse to tell the managers what we know etc.; we simple weren't asked. Kind regards, have a nice weekend Bernd Am 01.09.2023 um 16:43 schrieb Bill Johnson: > Which proves my point from a prior thread that coding and using assembler is > almost nonexistent. > > > Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
