tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18371456.post113391173762569763..comments2024-03-26T00:07:20.400-05:00Comments on The Db2 Portal Blog: The Aging MainframerCraig S. Mullinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17077237739217901780noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18371456.post-80291586571645656152023-05-06T10:12:13.279-05:002023-05-06T10:12:13.279-05:00During execution survey gatherings, it is basic to...During execution survey gatherings, it is basic to give helpful criticism to colleagues. Your remarks ought to be explicit, quantifiable, and zeroed in on regions where your laborers can upgrade. They ought to likewise be conveyed in a deferential and strong manner and offset with positive criticism and acknowledgment of designers' achievements. Also, you might need to address concerns like responsibility or correspondence issues during these gatherings>> <a href="https://mobilunity.com/blog/hire-dedicated-development-team-in-ukraine/" rel="nofollow">hire dedicated teams</a>JacobHarmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09102185005661698772noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18371456.post-3829748012390159502008-06-20T04:07:00.000-05:002008-06-20T04:07:00.000-05:00Not only that, but you can still run your vintage ...Not only that, but you can still run your vintage 1968 COBOL apps on the same box. And you get all of this without having to increase your datacenter rack space, power and cooling utilization, property taxes, etc.<BR/><BR/>Sounds like a winner to me!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18371456.post-1140899883794803322006-02-25T14:38:00.000-06:002006-02-25T14:38:00.000-06:00I think, perhaps, the above comment misunderstands...I think, perhaps, the above comment misunderstands my intent. I am not saying that COBOL and Fortran should be required college courses (I didn't need COBOL for my college degree in Computer Science many years ago). But COBOL is not dead - far from it.<BR/><BR/>The mainframe is not going to go away either. Yes, there are some shops that will abandon their mainframes. But the vast majority of the largest and richest organizations on the planet will continue to use mainframes. And they will use them properly (no "slow connections") and intelligently (with newer interfaces, programming languages, and so on).<BR/><BR/>I hope no one misunderstood me to be saying that all you need is knowledge of COBOL and JCL to succeed in today's IT world...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18371456.post-1140879765872575942006-02-25T09:02:00.000-06:002006-02-25T09:02:00.000-06:00My company is getting rid of its Mainframe applica...My company is getting rid of its Mainframe application and switching to the .Net environment with C#, (as are many other firms in the Orlando area). The reason? Competition. Slow connection for our users on the Web. We tried the screen scraping with a Web face. It didn't work. In the meantime, the "dinosaur" programmers you mention are being laid off (with anywhere from 10 to 20 years before retirement) and have nowhere to go unless they retrain and re-educate themselves with classes in the programs of the 21st century. You are not being honest with yourself or anyone else if you think colleges will go back to teaching COBOL and Fortran. Wake up and smell the coffee. It is the cold, hard truth that you better start burying your Mainframe along with your skills because they're no longer needed, or wanted. I learned the hard way.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18371456.post-1138739502333682122006-01-31T14:31:00.000-06:002006-01-31T14:31:00.000-06:00I am a mainframer albeit young to this profession ...I am a mainframer albeit young to this profession and I was greatly enthused after reading this article. You are quite correct in pointing out that in order to change the perception of people regarding mainframes it's better that Mainframe gets marketed under a different name altogether.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com