[Info-vax] And another one bites the dust....

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 2/17/22 14:50, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2022-02-17, Bill Gunshannon <bill.gunshannon at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> You mean all those people running zSystems with COBOL, DB2 and CICS
>> that actually make up the largest majority of the money makers in the
>> world?  The ones who have been told for at least 4 decades that the
>> mainframe is dead.  Oh yeah, and so is COBOL.  But then, didn't Byte
>> predict the death of Unix back in September 1992.  :-)
>>
> 
> Even IBM mainframes have moved on (big time!!!). They don't just run
> COBOL these days.
> 

They never ran "just COBOL".  Ignoring my IBM 1401 days :-)
when I was doing IBM VM370 I did COBOL, Fortran, PL/I, BASIC
and BAL.  As far as I know, the same is true today except you
can add REXX, Python, Java, Javascript, Perl, PHP and god only
knows what else.  Maybe I'll find out before I finish the IBM
Education Program, formerly known as "Mastering the Mainframe".
A program apparently aligned with about 3500 schools so far.

bill