Am 17.03.2018 um 04:34 schrieb David Crayford:
On 17/03/2018 9:27 AM, Bernd Oppolzer wrote:
b) the hope that younger developers can be moved to mainframe
development by a more "modern" IDE (but they aren't interested,
anyway ... they simply don't want to learn PL/1 and such things,
which they consider hard).
We've been quite lucky that the young guys we've hired have been
adaptable and pick up
the mainframe pretty quickly. One guy we interviewed thought ISPF was
cool in a kind of retro way
like the old 8-bit games that are back in fashion. One thing they all
universally detest is JCL. I suppose
if you come from a bash or powershell background it may seem a bit alien.
We made this observation, too. JCL is a motivation killer.
Luckily, compilation and transport etc. on our IDE does not require JCL.
Not even commands ... it's all menu driven (like: press button).
In fact, we had some young students, which were forced to work
for a while on the mainframe, and I coached them doing some C work
using embedded DB2 SQL. C should be easier for them than PL/1,
given their Java background; but anyway after this period they preferred
to return to their Java business, although we had a good time and
they succeeded with their projects. There may be a lot of reasons
for this decision, some personal, some about the perspectives of their
jobs, some about the sexiness of the environment ...
Kind regards
Bernd
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