[Default] On 14 Oct 2017 15:39:09 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main [email protected] (Steve Beaver) wrote:
>There are 15 trillion lines of COBOL As a retired systems programmer and applications programmer analyst whose primary languages were COBOL and Assembler, I have serious doubts about that statistic. There have been many successful migrations from the 360/370/390/z series systems. There also have been many successful if overly expensive migrations to SAP, Oracle, and the rest of the bunch. I would be amazed Facebook, Amazon, and Microsoft have any z series or BUNCH successor mainframes. Take a look at the job postings. Many applications systems, including ones I worked on needed to be redesigned and replaced. It could have been done in COBOL but getting management to buy into upgrading the way they do things to at least the 1985 standard and its facilities let alone anything later was too difficult. Clark Morris > >-----Original Message----- >From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On >Behalf Of scott Ford >Sent: Saturday, October 14, 2017 4:00 PM >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: Somewhat Interesting Mainframe Article > >Tom, > >I have people who think pcs can do everything. They don't consider what a z/OS >system can do. >Many of us yes I am in this group, I am 67 ..the word expiring is a bit odd. > >Scott > >On Oct 14, 2017, 3:35 PM -0400, Tom Brennan <[email protected]>, >wrote: >> Very good article, but I wish he would stop using the term "expiring". >> >> I agree with most everything except for COBOL modularization. Instead, >> I think good (re)documentation can solve many source code issues >> without the risk of changing things you know very little about. >> >> [email protected] wrote: >> > https://www.infoq.com/articles/retiring-mainframe-programmers >> > >> > -------------------------------------------------------------------- >> > -- 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 > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
