Fads have about a three year lifespan. I attended a Unicenter TNG course in 1997. I believe was buried around Y2K.
Baffled why SQL has lasted so long. Row Level Security anyone? On Wed, Nov 20, 2024 at 12:54 AM Allan Staller < 00000632b4c7ca99-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > Classification: Confidential > > CA tried this years ago with CA-Unicenter. All of the TSR's were supposed > to be retrained as Unicenter tech reps. > > Look where that went <G> > > > > ---Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf > Of Phil Smith III > Sent: Monday, November 18, 2024 11:00 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: What can this mean? > > [CAUTION: This Email is from outside the Organization. Unless you trust > the sender, Don’t click links or open attachments as it may be a Phishing > email, which can steal your Information and compromise your Computer.] > > A private message I received says IBMers were all required to take online > courses in AI and ChatGPT, and suggests that this might be the basis for > the claim that everyone in the world has "expertise". > > I'm still suspicious of "65,000 consultants". I called that "a quarter of > IBM" because I see numbers around 280K for worldwide IBM employee count, > and I just can't believe that that > (a) there are still anywhere near that many consultant positions after the > Kyndryl spinoff and > (b) even if there are still a ton of consultants, that it's 1:3 > consultant:<the rest> where <the rest> has to include > sales/support/dev/admin/financial/etc. > > I've worked for a lot of vendors, and with the possible exception of tiny > shops where the founder is the main sales rep AND the lead developer AND > goes onsite to do the installs, I don't think a quarter of any of those > companies has ever been consultants, or in most cases even > consultants+developers. > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf > Of Charles Mills > Sent: Monday, November 18, 2024 11:30 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: What can this mean? > > It's like the job postings where they want three to five years of > experience with some brand-new technology. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email > to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ::DISCLAIMER:: > ________________________________ > The contents of this e-mail and any attachment(s) are confidential and > intended for the named recipient(s) only. E-mail transmission is not > guaranteed to be secure or error-free as information could be intercepted, > corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late or incomplete, or may contain > viruses in transmission. The e mail and its contents (with or without > referred errors) shall therefore not attach any liability on the originator > or HCL or its affiliates. Views or opinions, if any, presented in this > email are solely those of the author and may not necessarily reflect the > views or opinions of HCL or its affiliates. Any form of reproduction, > dissemination, copying, disclosure, modification, distribution and / or > publication of this message without the prior written consent of authorized > representative of HCL is strictly prohibited. If you have received this > email in error please delete it and notify the sender immediately. Before > opening any email and/or attachments, please check them for viruses and > other defects. > ________________________________ > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- Wayne V. Bickerdike ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
