John, It sounds like the buyer got an ausrellian boomerang, not an insurance company. your company migration story reminds me the australian that purchased a new boomerang, but was unable to get rid of the old one ;-)
ITschak On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 2:36 PM John McKown <john.archie.mck...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 21, 2019 at 3:46 PM Charles Mills <charl...@mcn.org> wrote: > > > I am doing a favor for a friend who is writing a blog article on the > above > > subject, with an emphasis on the effect of the shrinking mainframe > > personnel > > pool. (This is NOT some disguised headhunter pitch. Reply to the list or > to > > me personally. I will take full responsibility for "sanitizing" your > e-mail > > address and so forth out of what I forward to my friend.) > > > > Does your employer allow mainframe sysprogs and developers to work from > > home? > > > > Yes. The application programmers, both of them, oftern work from home. The > sysprogs generally don't. I'm a sysprog. If I were at home, I'd be too > tempted to play games. > > > > Any particular restrictions or qualifications? > > > > Restriction: get the job done. > > > > > Have they changed their policies specifically to address the shrinking > > mainframe personnel pool? > > > > Yes. They have said that we will be eliminated as soon as possible. They've > been saying this for over 6 years now with 2 failed attempts. We were just > bought out by a multinational who has reiterated that the IBM z mainframes > will be elimnated and the ;work moved to a software package called Facets. > They are also said that this cannot occur quickly because we have so many > "customized" policies (health insurance) that Facets cannot handle the > thousands of variations. So they are waiting until they can refuse renewal, > convince the customer to change policies, or the customer dies (I am > guessing this later, management would never say that.) > > > > > Roughly what percentage of your colleagues work from home? > > > > Both programmers, about 50% of the time. 3 sysprogs, almost never because > we need to be here to do "operations" duties -- like kicking the accursed > 3494-B10 when it messes up (a fairly often thing, it being 13 years old). > > > > > > > Thanks! > > > > Charles > > > > -- > I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go > into the library and read a good book > -- Groucho Marx > > Maranatha! <>< > John McKown > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- ITschak Mugzach *|** IronSphere Platform* *|* *Information Security Contiguous Monitoring for Legacy **| * ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
