>From an IBM red book, the one which describes Walmart’s adventures with CICS in a cloud.
>From the section which describes the activities of the CICS and z/OS systems programmers: “The traditional role of systems programmers over time became focused on system administration functions. But, to extend the capabilities of CICS, the old-school, multi-role technician must reemerge and embrace the latest technologies” Well some of us never actually went away. But wait, there’s more. It gets worse. Further on in the same article there’s talk of: “Selecting HLASM and COBOL as service development languages.” Programming, Jim? *Assembler* language programming? I don’t think we need any of *that* here. What I would like to know is where were all the managers while all this programming was going on. Does Walmart have the most enlightened managers in the mainframe world or did they just not have a clue what was going on. I suspect the latter, it’s unlikely Walmart’s managers are any different from anyone else’s. A very interesting red book with lots of detailed information although I kept seeing the word 'service'. Not a word one would normally associate with Walmart. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
