Ed, I agree with you. Machines are faster and faster. But customers are demanding changes to code and fixes faster. This to me is a problem, especially if 'caution is thrown to the wind'. Dealing with the security subsystem, I.e.; RACF, ACF2 and TOP-SECRET , many customers are ignorant of these products , especially in how and why they work.
I write in COBOL and my first love Assembler, so we have exits that support our product. I have seen like everyone else a lot of craziness. The approach of using the PC and Java for everything to me is a cop out . This is the apparent trend I have been seeing. To this t-Rex this is not the only path to product development. Scott On Oct 15, 2017, 1:25 AM -0400, Edward Gould <edgould1...@comcast.net>, wrote: > > On Oct 14, 2017, at 8:50 PM, Clark Morris <cfmpub...@ns.sympatico.ca> wrote: > > > > > > As a retired systems programmer and applications programmer analyst > > whose primary languages were COBOL and Assembler, I have serious > > doubts about that statistic. There have been many successful > > migrations from the 360/370/390/z series systems. There also have > > been many successful if overly expensive migrations to SAP, Oracle, > > and the rest of the bunch. I would be amazed Facebook, Amazon, and > > Microsoft have any z series or BUNCH successor mainframes. Take a > > look at the job postings. Many applications systems, including ones I > > worked on needed to be redesigned and replaced. It could have been > > done in COBOL but getting management to buy into upgrading the way > > they do things to at least the 1985 standard and its facilities let > > alone anything later was too difficult. > > > > Clark Morris > > Clark: > > Look at it this way though. As machines get faster and faster, there is > little need to revamp (any) code. That is one of the issue now days. > management is just to happy so they do not have to rewrite code they just get > a bigger machine. Maybe that is the undoing of Z? > > Ed > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
