What goes around comes around.
On Thursday, October 5, 2017 11:50 AM, "Savor, Thomas (Alpharetta)"
<[email protected]> wrote:
As an "Assembler" guy.....that's great news !!!!!
Thanks,
Tom Savor
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf
Of Beverly Caldwell
Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2017 11:47 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Here's a horrifying thought for all you management types....
>From an IBM red book, the one which describes Walmart’s adventures with CICS
>in a cloud.
>From the section which describes the activities of the CICS and z/OS systems
>programmers:
“The traditional role of systems programmers over time became focused on system
administration functions. But, to extend the capabilities of CICS, the
old-school, multi-role technician must reemerge and embrace the latest
technologies”
Well some of us never actually went away.
But wait, there’s more. It gets worse. Further on in the same article there’s
talk of:
“Selecting HLASM and COBOL as service development languages.”
Programming, Jim? *Assembler* language programming? I don’t think we need any
of *that* here.
What I would like to know is where were all the managers while all this
programming was going on. Does Walmart have the most enlightened managers in
the mainframe world or did they just not have a clue what was going on.
I suspect the latter, it’s unlikely Walmart’s managers are any different from
anyone else’s.
A very interesting red book with lots of detailed information although I kept
seeing the word 'service'. Not a word one would normally associate with Walmart.
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