On Tue, 16 Mar 2021 19:57:59 +0000, Bill Johnson wrote: >There are quite a few colleges that offer mainframe classes & lots of young >people working on it. Too many have bought the mainframe is dead idiocy. For >decades. The mainframe still processes the vast majority of important work and >will for decades to come, long after most of us here are gone. > ... Or, make python, javascript, ruby, etc. available under z/OS for a competitive cash outlay.
The recent "COBOL ... change in behavior ..." thread might provoke a feeding frenzy among the airline magazines. >On Tuesday, March 16, 2021, 3:45 PM, Brian Chapman wrote: > >In my opinion, it's a shame that it is this difficult to find a free >academic platform for individuals like the one you described. Master the >Mainframe is a great place to start, but it does not go deep enough. >There's a reason why preteens are writing python, javascript, ruby, etc. >IBM needs to change their perspective and culture to encourage >young individuals to the mainframe. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
