RE: Help! Boss wants to know why ILE?

HAH! They pay in sausage. ;)

If you want to find RPG skills just come to Birmingham, Alabama. One of
the area's larger employers from what I have read is tanking. I believe
they have an iSeries staff of over 50. Lots of contractors on top of the
employee base.

The code is mostly rpg-sql with a smattering of real ILE constructs.

North Central Alabama 15 years ago was a large IBM midrange install
base. Not anymore. In 1989 I worked for a company that gave me one
objective. GET RID OF IBM. PERIOD. This from the CFO. I did and they
canned me. I guess the IBM logo tattooed on my rear did not help
me.............



Bentley Pearson
Vice President - Information Services
Southland National Insurance Corporation
1812 University Blvd
Tuscaloosa, Al
35403
205 345 7410
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you willing to pay extra for those who hate cold weather ;-)

Thanks,
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Hi Mike,

I assume you are being sarcastic.

I'm not being sarcastic.

I'm currently looking to hire two RPG programmers, and haven't had many
responses. Of the 10 or so responses I have had, perhaps half of them
are from people with no RPG experience who figured they'd apply anyway,
just in case.

I'm an RPG advocate, and I often speak about the benefits of RPG. It's
very common to hear managers complain that they feel RPG is not a good
future direction because there's very little RPG talent. They have a
hard time finding RPG programmers. When they do, they're always older
people who they expect to retire within the next decade or so.

The other problem, of course, is that RPG programmers don't ever want to

upgrade their skills. This has led to the widespread opinion that RPG
is only for maintaining legacy green-screen software. But the lack of
talent is starting to eclipse this problem!

It really makes me sad.