Maybe, but I look at it a little differently. IBM has been aware for some time that their customers are hurting for COBOL (and other MVS-related) skills, and has been working on it. This sounds to me like an attempt to publicize something they've been doing all along. If a few more people become aware of it now in the light (so to speak) of COVID-19, that's all to the good, and if IBM can garner a little more credit for what they've been doing all along, so much the better.
--- Bob Bridges, robhbrid...@gmail.com, cell 336 382-7313 /* As a father, I have a vested interest in seeing my children do well in school. If they don't, they won't graduate, and will probably wind up living in my house until they are thirty years old. This will interfere with my plan to reach retirement age without killing another human being. -W Bruce Cameron, _Study Habits_ (2001) */ -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Phil Smith III Sent: Monday, April 13, 2020 11:28 A better article than most of them, I think: https://slate.com/technology/2020/04/new-jersey-unemployment-cobol-coronavir us.html Had to laugh at IBM saying "We're giving away COBOL training to help with this!" - right, just what we need, newbie COBOL programmers fixing mission-critical systems. Plus I can't imagine that this doesn't require use of tricky stuff like ISPF and JCL. A very weak attempt to jump on the bandwagon, I'm afraid. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
