Re: COBOL programmers can't learn Java [was: Java Batch und JCL (DSN Disposition)]

2009-09-16 Thread Barkow, Eileen
elementary school level programming. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Howard Brazee Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2009 9:42 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: COBOL programmers can't learn Java [was: Java Batch und JCL

Re: COBOL programmers can't learn Java [was: Java Batch und JCL (DSN Disposition)]

2009-09-16 Thread Howard Brazee
On 15 Sep 2009 14:08:33 -0700, step...@hawaii.edu (Stephen Y Odo) wrote: >COBOL programmers CAN learn Java ... if management is willing to invest >in training them AND they are willing to learn! Note that BOTH >conditions must be true! I'm not sure management has to be willing to invest in train

COBOL programmers can't learn Java [was: Java Batch und JCL (DSN Disposition)]

2009-09-15 Thread Stephen Y Odo
My wife and her crew used to be COBOL/CICS programmers. They migrated to Software AG's NATURAL/CICS about 22 years ago. And a few years ago they started migrating to Java on Solaris (that may be changing soon too). For training, they attended a number of our undergraduate Computer Science course