On 17/03/2018 9:27 AM, Bernd Oppolzer wrote:
The motivation for the RDz migration was:
a) some problems of isolation of source codes which have been
checked out from other developers (this has been fixed partially
in the meantime, and it can be fixed totally by moving all sources
to the DB2 repository and making the checkout datasets private
and protected)
b) the hope that younger developers can be moved to mainframe
development by a more "modern" IDE (but they aren't interested,
anyway ... they simply don't want to learn PL/1 and such things,
which they consider hard).
We've been quite lucky that the young guys we've hired have been
adaptable and pick up
the mainframe pretty quickly. One guy we interviewed thought ISPF was
cool in a kind of retro way
like the old 8-bit games that are back in fashion. One thing they all
universally detest is JCL. I suppose
if you come from a bash or powershell background it may seem a bit alien.
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