Ot: Death of the mainframe

[Nancy Palmquist]

I can add that these mainframes require skills that are becoming 
scarce.  I have friends that work with these systems and they are 
becoming more and more difficult to handle.

SQL interfaces for the users.  YUK!

JCL scripts that need handling and very heavy usage.

But it pays her bills, big time.  But they work her 12 hours a day and 
it never seems to end.  Managers schedule development and it is do or 
die to get things done in time.  I do not envy her at all.

Nancy

On 7/19/2011 11:51 AM, Bill Campbell wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 19, 2011, Richard Kreiss wrote:
>
>> It appears that the pendant's who predicted the "Death of the mainframe"
>> were very wrong.
>> In today's NY time business sales of IBM's new mainframes were up.
>> I know most of us do not deal with companies which need a mainframe but it
>> is nice to know that these workhorses are still around although in a much
>> different format then the older generation.
> There are probably a large percentage of programs running on
> these written in COBOL.  I wouldn't be surprised if there were
> still some written in Autocoder emulation.
>
> I wonder if they still require huge quantities of JCL.
>
> BTW, I admit to anti-IBM bias as a long time Burroughs user :-).
>
> Bill

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