Mainframe COBOL » nightly cycles http://www.mainframecobol.info We know what COBOL stands for Sun, 05 Feb 2012 18:50:57 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Advice to mainframe programmers: stick with it, and specialize within mainframe http://www.mainframecobol.info/2010/02/advice-to-mainframe-programmers-stick-with-it-and-specialize-within-mainframe/ http://www.mainframecobol.info/2010/02/advice-to-mainframe-programmers-stick-with-it-and-specialize-within-mainframe/#comments Tue, 09 Feb 2010 21:01:24 +0000 Mike http://www.mainframecobol.info/?p=258 The scuttlebutt on the job market related to mainframe now comes across to me as this:

Ten years ago, if you have worked mainly as a mainframe programmer, particularly in the old-fashioned world of nightly cycles, JCL, on-call support, COBOL, CICS, S0C7’s, AbendAid, etc (don’t we remember this), it was more prudent to grow your background in the mainframe area where you had focused expertise, than to move into client-server, where it’s hard to pick things up in non-linear learning curve mode. Why?

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