RE: Wanted: 20,000 Main Frame Experts

That is very interesting Bruce.  We have a mainframe environment here
and part of our AS/400 group was talking about some of the same issues
you have been discussing.  One of them being the number of people that
have to support the Mainframe environment vs the number needed to
support a iseries environment.  Very interesting discussion.

Joel B. Harvell
Food Lion, LLC
(704) 633-8250 x2709
jbharvell@xxxxxxxxxxxx

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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Bruce Collins
Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2005 9:10 AM
To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'
Subject: RE: Wanted: 20,000 Main Frame Experts

This is crazy. The best platform that IBM has is the iSeries and what
gets
the most promotion on TV? The zSeries aka mainframe. I am doing work
with a
transportation company that is at the 1/2 Billion dollar mark in revenue
and
was operating an IBM Mainframe to run there business. They were having
issues with the machine going down 2 or 3 times a week. This had been
happening for over a year. 

The CEO of this company went to a transportation conference and was
talking
with other CEO's about the issue of his systems going up and down and
was
this common. A CEO of another transportation company said he did not
know of
a time his system has been down other that for scheduled maintenance.
When
ask what type of system did he used he said and IBM iSeries. 

Now this company is running iSeries. I was brought in to assist in bring
the
staff up to speed from CICS Cobol to RPG FREE. 

When I first started here the word was the Cobol programmers had said
they
would never write an RPG program. They were fighting it tooth and nail.
When
I started sitting down one on one with the programmers and showing them
how
productive they can be they were amazed. Projects that would have taken
them
weeks in COBOL took only days in RPG. Now they are singing the praises
of
RPG Free and the iSeries. All it took was someone sit down with them and
explain it to them in terms they could understand.

Oh yeah. They have not been down for unscheduled downtime since they
started
on the iSeries two years ago.

I again say that IBM needs to FOCUS, FOCUS, FOCUS on the system that has
the
highest loyalty and satisfaction rating of any of there systems.

HELLO IBM ARE YOU LISTENING!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We have been saying this for years.

WAKE UP IBM. YOU ARE NEGLECTING THE FINEST SYSTEM YOU HAVE EVER CREATED.


HOSS

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From: pnelson@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pnelson@xxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2005 10:03 PM
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Fw: Wanted: 20,000 Main Frame Experts

Interesting article

http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=1700002
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