Re: Interesting article on the future of mainframe programming and support personnel

2009-09-17 Thread Howard Brazee
On 16 Sep 2009 14:27:57 -0700, gerh...@valley.net (Gerhard Postpischil) wrote: Ian wrote: Take a moment and participate in the poll: http://www.cicsworld.com/ Like many a poll, it's missing some alternatives, making the results questionable. Just some quick additions: I'm semi-retired, doing

Re: Interesting article on the future of mainframe programming and support personnel

2009-09-16 Thread Ian
Several media articles came out after the CA Mainframe survey was released. Networkworld put it this way: Still all is by no means rosy in mainframeland. Another recent study raised an ever-increasing issue – retiring mainframers. Several years ago I put poll's to see where we stand with

Re: Interesting article on the future of mainframe programming and support personnel

2009-09-16 Thread Gerhard Postpischil
Ian wrote: Take a moment and participate in the poll: http://www.cicsworld.com/ Like many a poll, it's missing some alternatives, making the results questionable. Just some quick additions: I'm semi-retired, doing occasional consulting work or I'm already retired or I'm retired but do

Re: Interesting article on the future of mainframe programming and support personnel

2009-09-16 Thread Ian
Gerhard wrote Like many a poll, it's missing some alternatives, making the results questionable. Just some quick additions: I'm semi-retired, doing occasional consulting work or I'm already retired or I'm retired but do occasional pro bono work or I'm not retiring, but changing careers (perhaps

Re: Interesting article on the future of mainframe programming and support personnel

2009-09-16 Thread Patrick O'Keefe
On Wed, 16 Sep 2009 17:26:12 -0400, Gerhard Postpischil gerh...@valley.net wrote: Ian wrote: Take a moment and participate in the poll: http://www.cicsworld.com/ Like many a poll, it's missing some alternatives, making the results questionable. ... I think the results would be pretty

Re: Interesting article on the future of mainframe programming and support personnel

2009-09-16 Thread Gerhard Postpischil
Patrick O'Keefe wrote: Has anybody tried voting twice? I decided not to since there was only 1 vote in my bucket. (If I'd been more on the ball I'd have noted which the largest bucket and would have tried to add another vote to it - less of a misleading impact that way (unless that's why it

Re: Interesting article on the future of mainframe programming and support personnel

2009-09-16 Thread Patrick O'Keefe
On Wed, 16 Sep 2009 16:38:44 -0500, Ian pcs...@gmail.com wrote: ... Thanks Gerhard, leaving out an option for retirees was an omission. I've added 2 option. Unfortunately, the really important missing options are Already retired and no longer taking mainframe-related surveys and Dead (And

Interesting article on the future of mainframe programming and support personnel

2009-09-15 Thread Joel Wolpert
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