RE: [Survey] What would you like to ask IBM about RPG certification?

Thanks for your input.  So far that's what everyone has said!  I was
hoping to get two articles out of this.. an IMHO and a Q&A, but I might
only get away with one... unless the newsgroup picks up all of a
sudden...

Thanks again.
Brad

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> From: DAsmussen@aol.com [SMTP:DAsmussen@aol.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 22, 1998 11:21 PM
> To:   MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject:      Re: [Survey] What would you like to ask IBM about RPG
> certification?
> 
> Brad,
> 
> In a message dated 98-09-21 16:33:08 EDT, you write:
> 
> > I'm putting together an article for MC that is sort of a Q&A with
> IBM
> >  about the benifits or pitfalls of RPG Certification.  
> 
> Congratulations!
> 
> >  If you wanted to ask IBM a question, what would it be?  Things like
> "Why
> >  should I be certified if I already have a degree?" or "I don't use
> SEU,
> >  so why should the questions on the test about SEU effect my final
> >  score?".  Anything you want.  
> <<snip>>
> 
> The "why should I be certified if I already have a degree" question is
> pretty
> self-evident.  Saaawwwrrrrreeee, but I've dealt with numerous people
> with even
> advanced degrees that couldn't write a decent piece of code to save
> their
> lives.  Programming is an art, and "ya' either got it or you don't".
> But that
> wasn't your question.
> 
> IBM has tried to develop an "ability-neutral" certification test.  I
> believe
> that the latter is a fool's pursuit.  There are just _FAR_ too many
> different
> "flavors" of RPG sites for any one test to serve them all well.  Use
> CODE/400
> or VA/RPG?  SEU questions are worthless.  Vice-versa is worthless as
> well.
> ILE sites rarely use RPG/400 and vice-versa.  I would propose that
> there be an
> "editor" test seperate of the "language certification" test, and would
> ask IBM
> why RPG isn't seperated into its' various disciplines...
> 
> JMHO,
> 
> Dean Asmussen
> Enterprise Systems Consulting, Inc.
> Fuquay-Varina, NC  USA
> E-Mail:  DAsmussen@aol.com
> 
> "A man who is not a liberal in his youth has no heart.  A man who is
> not
> conservative in his later years has no brain." -- Otto Van Bismarck
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