COMMON also has the Young iSeries Professionals (YIPs) group, which is
made up of younger folks working on the platform. Pete Massiello used to
be involved with that group. Not sure if he still is.
Evelyn Hoover
Executive Editor
IBM Systems Magazine
(507) 286-6853 T/L 456-6853
Web site:
http://www.ibmsystemsmag.com
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RE: i5 Youngsters
I would contact Linda Grigoleit lfg@xxxxxxxxxxx
She is in charge of the Academic Initiative. I think they have had some
pretty decent successes. Perhaps not enough to keep us all happy but
there have been some very good efforts and some very good results. She
should have some presentation material available as well.
Michael Crump
Manager, Computing Services
Saint-Gobain Containers, Inc.
1509 S. Macedonia Ave.
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[mailto:midrange-nontech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Vance
Stanley
Sent: Monday, January 14, 2008 12:31 PM
To: Midrange-NonTech@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: i5 Youngsters
I have a manager/supervisor that is concerned about the "greying" of
his work force and the
ability to acquire younger programmers that are willing to work in the
i5 environment. I have
argued that when I came into programming in 1991 I just wanted to work
and did not care what kind
of programming I was doing. I ended up doing COBOL programming in a
mainframe environment and at
the time I thought it was good experience. Anyway, my supervisor seems
to think the new crop of
programmers are not as flexible in that regard and only want to learn
whats hot. Any thoughts
about how I can present a case to show that the system should be well
supplied with professionals
for at least the foreseeable future?
Vance
midrange.com
