Some goverment agencies are replacing their mainframe COBOL with java. I dont see a payoff. I think this is driven by contracting companies who will make money off the conversion and managers who do not know anything about programming languages but read somewhere that COBOL is out of date.
Many agencies and companies used to have in house COBOL, JCL, etc training. Now they just say they cant find programmers who know COBOL. Most of the people I worked with 20 years ago had learned COBOL on the JOB. Some agencies want to move data bases from mainframe DB2 to some kind of cloud data base. I tried to get Zowe working. No one is using it here. From what I saw of the interface I like ISPF edit better with add in edit macros and REXX EXECs that I learned about on IBM-MAIN. Zowe told me it couldnt find java even thought I kept entering the location in what looked like the right spot. I gave up. This interface might appeal to kids who learn COBOL though. I used to use smart batch pipes works in REXX which was nice. I learned about it on IBM-MAIN. Later they shut it off and said I was the ONLY one using it in my shop and wanted to know how I leared about it. (IBM-MAIN) I just tried TSO PIPE and it worked so... If IBM is loosing market share, perhaps things like smart batch pipes works should be free ? -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of Eric D Rossman Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2021 10:46 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: Mainframe Modernization What kind of "lies- smoke and mirrors" do you see that IBM should be pushing back on with our marketing? I'm just a highly technical crypto guy, so I don't write the marketing copy, but you have piqued my interest. Eric Rossman, CISSP(r) ICSF Cryptographic Security Development z/OS Enabling Technologies edros...@us.ibm.com "Ron Wells" wrote on 10/21/2021 09:05:05 AM: > IBM needs to push back in Marketing , be more forceful stop the > lies- smoke and mirrors ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
