There is at least one college that is continuing mainframe education, please see http://www.mainframezone.com/it-management/historic-marist-college-embra ces-mainframes-future.
For one, I look forward to using my "dead" mainframe skills to make my retirement a bit easier. Maybe then I will again be able to do the stuff I have always enjoyed, like COBOL programming (or Assembler, Easytrieve, just plain JCL and a myriad of other coding languages). ...Bob -----Original Message----- From: Hunkeler Peter (KIUP 4) [mailto:peter.hunke...@credit-suisse.com] Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2010 2:24 AM Subject: Re: COBOL - no longer being taught - is a problem This is not only a problem of universites not teaching its students COBOL, PL/I, IBM Mainframes, etc. It is also a home made problem of the companies requiring this kind of skills. Many of them had their own IT school with which they took care of educating employees in the skills they need for that company. They also sent students to classromm courses in matters not worth teaching by themselves. At least in Switzerland, this has vanished into thin air during the last decade or so. And now intelligent management all over a sudden realizes that they are heading into the problem of retiring employees and complains that they can't find new employees with the demanded skills. It is sure nice to have IT architects that look ahead and preach JAVA, but neglecting that there are legacy systems which for many companies are its heart, is simply not in the interest of those companies. This leads back to the universities. Can you expect someone to preach a matter they don't now abaout? Rarely, probably. -- Peter Hunkeler CREDIT SUISSE AG ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
