In the original article (https://www.tomshardware.com/news/new-jersey-cobol-coders-mainframes-coronavirus) it said “The governor of New Jersey made a seemingly odd call for help last night: The state desperately needs COBOL programmers to revamp the 50-year-old software powering the 40-year-old mainframes behind the state's unemployment system”. When I reread the article yesterday I noticed there was a link (https://www.northjersey.com/story/news/new-jersey/2020/04/04/coronavirus-nj-40-year-old-system-adds-delay-unemployment-checks/2944985001/) attached to "odd call for help last night". So I clicked on the link.
Nothing there, though, that very much resembled a call for help from the governor. The only mention of COBOL was this paragraph: “There will be lots of postmortems and one of them on our list will be: how did we get here when we literally need COBOL programmers,” Murphy said of the outdated computer language. I'm thinking the headline writer got a little carried away. --- Bob Bridges, robhbrid...@gmail.com, cell 336 382-7313 /* Another reason why creative individuals prefer to work at home, as opposed to an office, is that when you need to scratch yourself, you don't have to sneak behind the copying machine and settle for a hasty grope. At home, you can rear back and assault the affected region with both hands, or, if you want, gardening implements. -Dave Barry */ -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Stan Saraczewski Sent: Tuesday, April 7, 2020 06:58 I'd like to present myself to the NJ Labor Dept to assist with their COBOL tasks... does anyone know of a direct e-mail where I won't have to go thru their regular channels for jobs ? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
