Re: RPGILE programmers and the future of iSeries

[Mike Wills <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Look at COBOL. How many jobs was California looking for a few years ago? I
thought COBOL was dead YEARS ago.

It is always the same arguments and same outcome. A slow decline, but never
dies.

--
Mike Wills
http://mikewills.me


On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 1:46 PM, Jerry Draper <midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> How can executive management justify keeping iSeries systems when the
> pool of RPG programmers are of retirement age or so?
>
> Is that a myth promulgated by *IX PHP folk?
>
> At one place I am hearing that one justification for moving off of an
> iSeries is that no "younger" programmers are interested in learning RPG
> or it derivitives (ie:  RPGILE).
>
> Anyone else encountered this argument?
>
> My view is that RPGILE is just another coding system with a learnable
> syntax and that much of the user experience is via front ends written in
> java or .net.
>
> The iSeries is a great db engine serving up data to whoever wants it (or
> is authorized to it).  Tried, true, and trustworthy.
>
> If we are all going to retire at the same moment will the iSeries go poof?
>
> Jerry
>
>
>
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