Re: Help! Boss wants to know why ILE?

["Mark Allen" <scprideandms@xxxxxxxxx>]

Cincy used to ROCK the midrange world......................

On 4/24/07, Bentley Pearson <BPearson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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.
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> The code is mostly rpg-sql with a smattering of real ILE constructs.
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> 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.............
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> 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 ;-)
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> Thanks,
> Tommy Holden
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> Hi Mike,
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> > I assume you are being sarcastic.
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> I'm not being sarcastic.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> The other problem, of course, is that RPG programmers don't ever want to
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> 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!
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> It really makes me sad.
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