John McKown wrote: >The company today told us that our outsourcing contract has been terminated.
Excellent! I am very very glad for your part! Good luck! >The main reason given is the drastic change in the business environment and >needs. This is where z/OS coming in. It can handle different workloads over the years (with the support and development of vendors and programmers and DBAs of course) >Basically, a lot of companies who jumped into the health market have abandoned >it due to their failure to make money under the ACA. What is ACA? >So, it looks like my job is secure for at least another 18 months. We will be >repatriating work back from the outsource to both our internal distributed >environment and z/OS. Since 1989 when I started, I read constantly that 'mainframe is dead/pre-historic/etc.' ... ... but the fact is - technology to *fully* replace mainframe ( MVS / OS/390 / z/OS ) are not there (so far yet). I am still waiting, waiting and zzzzzzzzz waiting for the funeral of 'mainframe'. ;-) >But 1.5 years will get me to full retirement age Full retirement age is a good thing, you don't forfeit some retirement rewards. If you retire early, then you are penalized. Standard retirement age in South Africa is 60. You can retire at 55 (with little penalty) or at 65, but then your health is down at that time preventing you to enjoy your golden age. >(assuming some damn pickup doesn't kill me on the road). Or taxis don't crash into you or your car. They stop and start at any place in or on the road for loading/offloading passengers. No, absolutely no any road rules/laws/regulations apply to them... and the traffic cops just collect bribes from them all the way... (Taxis - small buses like the Volkswagen Kombi. Minibus taxis (16 seater commuter buses).) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Share_taxi (and scroll down to South Africa) Groete / Greetings Elardus Engelbrecht ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
