[Default] On 7 Apr 2020 09:58:43 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main sasd...@gmail.com (Steve Smith) wrote:
>Really? 40-year-old mainframes? That's close to impossible, and certainly >ridiculous. I'm sure many of you remember better than me, but 1980 was the >era of needing a megawatt or so to generate 20 MIPS or something like >that. If you could find the parts and the expertise to keep it going. Not only that but we don't have enough information to tell what the true problems are. If the need is for programmers, then they need people who know the systems so either retired programmers or those who have moved on from dealing with the respective systems. It is no time to get people who need to learn the systems no matter how much they know COBOL. The other need is for those who can assess what is needed to handle the drastically increased volume and work with the equipment and abilities to transparently upgrade it. Note we don't know if the mainframes are IBM, Unisys or some other vendor. We also don't know if the operating system, compilers, database management systems, etc. are still within support. Clark Morris > >sas > > >On Tue, Apr 7, 2020 at 11:44 AM Bob Bridges <robhbrid...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> 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. > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >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
