[Default] On 6 Feb 2017 11:53:05 -0800, in bit.listserv.ibm-main li...@akphs.com (Phil Smith III) wrote:
>Network World: > >By some estimates there will be more than 84,000 open positions in this >field by 2020. > > > >http://www.networkworld.com/article/3161857/hardware/as-baby-boomers-retire- >the-shortage-of-mainframe-professionals-grows-more-acute.html > Given the slow and steady attrition of z series shops and movement to the cloud, I do not believe it. Are the salaries for mainframe technical people increasing? Are there mass recruitments for COBOL programmers or increased salaries and contract rates? I am grateful to have been able to retire when I did. I doubt the estimates given on the number of lines of COBOL source for programs that are still actively in production given the number of systems that have been replaced by packages such as SAP. What is the attendance at SHARE these days? I doubt it is as high as when I was participating in it. Guide has been gone since 1999. I doubt many of the newer ISV packages are written in COBOL. There isn't the same small system support for the 360 architecture there used to be and I doubt many organizations upgrade to z from the IBM i series. If any organization starts out on any system that is ASCII/ISO oriented, I don't see that organization going through the pain to get to z/OS and conversion to EBCDIC. Unisys is selling Intel based servers running either OS2200 or MCP, with at least the OS2200 based systems running with emulated code through firmware. I doubt either are being sold to new customers. Given the various Windows, Linux and Unix offerings I doubt there is much of a growth market for z series or for any other mainframe architecture. Incidentally, how secure is TPF? I understand that it used be sort of like Windows 3.1 in that everything was in the same address space for performance. If your shop was on Windows or some Unix variant for all of its processing, would you recommend converting to z series? Clark Morris > > >Now, that would be nice, but.um.I don't think so. > > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >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
