On Thu, 26 Jul 2007 07:18:36 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: >I've been in a lot of mainframe shops over the last 20+ years and have >seen one thing over and over. Mature shops have spent the last 30+ >years building layers of policies and procedures to manage software >development and deployment. This ALWAYS makes it harder to create >something and put it into production quickly. It isn't that COBOL or >other older languages are that difficult to work with, it's the >processes and procedures. Unfortunately, the perception is that >there's something wrong with COBOL or mainframes. *BUZZ* Wrong!
It really doesn't matter what part of the system is "wrong", if the shop isn't willing to fix that part. If it is easier to throw away the whole system than to change embedded procedures, then that's what will happen. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
