Sigh! The system may be 40 years old but the computer in the picture is a lot older.
I suspect that the "40 year old" system is like the ax that has been in use for 200 years: the handle has been replaced 20 times and the blade has been replaced 25 times, but it's still the same ax. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of Phil Smith III <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, April 13, 2020 11:27 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: New Jersey Pleas for COBOL Coders for Mainframes Amid Coronavirus Pandemic A better article than most of them, I think: https://secure-web.cisco.com/10R7oziYWff-XnS7oxCfjL9m1BdqyyN92QDvpU5lSy_gisAdqZA2IIhqm-6quMTnaADKayaieWOPM5h-glt70epo05Jh5ItrpaG7lWkjvUoAu4FYJ0eL9UUTr8kudZpA-J39j5Lno9Si3viMfDMXwh1iUpJ7IJal7xYNn4n3xbDa8Ric3vzGvZyzXxiijZtR-KnCtWv0zTuCYV5M-273y-PRWdWA-N_5W43VfhrPJWyM1wU_a5xvTvfPcutHuKvNuV9SBKH1L0cg25E5lLVcl8_sObmG2U5Gge6lGqR737oyEWtMak9MN1T1pJpBjP4gvaGONw9Pouv2aey7YgYlv-Y_Pf9iBnPDZGG5cYmrW1U_ysTPHxZuEwuxxX4YQZdmGM6urI0GHAAy_tPxBYo6dolfwtGrBrD4q4bPZaIc2_J5vPSApRiRYtFVx1fVZDD92g-FvL213OtxdqTun4K2_QwruPa8EjRS7MkMFmfF9nzE/https%3A%2F%2Fslate.com%2Ftechnology%2F2020%2F04%2Fnew-jersey-unemployment-cobol-coronavirus.html Had to laugh at IBM saying "We're giving away COBOL training to help with this!" - right, just what we need, newbie COBOL programmers fixing mission-critical systems. Plus I can't imagine that this doesn't require use of tricky stuff like ISPF and JCL. A very weak attempt to jump on the bandwagon, I'm afraid. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
