Same issues we had as well. 100% agree.
Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone On Wednesday, September 12, 2018, 9:08 AM, John McKown <[email protected]> wrote: On Wed, Sep 12, 2018 at 7:18 AM Bill Johnson < [email protected]> wrote: > The biggest issue/roadblock in my recent shops has been that non-mainframe > managers and above still think the mainframe is dying. I’ve found that > having non-mainframe managers really prevents the mainframe and the staff > from making progress on initiatives like AI and others. At my last shop, we > bought a DB2 analytics accelerator and didn’t use it. A million dollars > wasted. > The biggest argument here is that z/OS is only supported by old people who are retiring, or dying. That the younger people aren't learning (and not interested in learning) z/OS. They are either Windows or Linux oriented, with a few who are both. So the z/OS system is implicitly dying because the "local support" is withering. Again, this is the _perception_ here. And, I am personally convinced, that the CIO is a Windows bigot because "he understands it" and he doesn't understand z/OS. Nor does he wish to understand it. It is simpler to eliminate what you don't understand, rather than learn about it. -- People who frustrate us will be around for as long as we need them. Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
