Clark Morris wrote, in part: >Given the slow and steady attrition of z series shops and movement to
>the cloud, I do not believe it. Are the salaries for mainframe >technical people increasing? Are there mass recruitments for COBOL >programmers or increased salaries and contract rates? Exactly. "No." BTW, "zSeries" (no space) and "iSeries" (no space) are both long dead-12 years now. They are, respectively, "z Systems" and "IBM i" nowadays. "Who cares"? Well, I submit that it matters in the same sense that you aren't running a Pentium or an 80386 in your laptop today: they're descendants, but hardly the same thing any more. .phsiii (feeling pedantic today) (yeah, yeah, "Today?!?") ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN