> On Oct 14, 2017, at 8:50 PM, Clark Morris <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 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
Clark: Look at it this way though. As machines get faster and faster, there is little need to revamp (any) code. That is one of the issue now days. management is just to happy so they do not have to rewrite code they just get a bigger machine. Maybe that is the undoing of Z? Ed ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
