Re: What happened to Test 972: IBM Certified Specialist - ILE RPG Programmer?

wrote:

Maybe RPG is more like Bela Lugosi: undead, undead, undead.

-Kurt

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On Behalf Of Larry Ducie
Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2010 7:50 AM
To: RPG400
Subject: What happened to Test 972: IBM Certified Specialist - ILE RPG
Programmer?


List,

According to this link: http://www-03.ibm.com/certify/news/change.shtml

The ILE RPG Certification exam has been retired - as of 22nd January 2010.

However, if I go to http://ibt.prometric.com/ibmtesting they will happily
take my $10 for sitting the 972 Assessment Test - without telling me the
Certification I am preparing for is now retired.

If I go to prometric.com to try to book the Certification Exam it does not
appear in the list and the link above is offered to "Review recent additions
and removals to IBM certifications".

Does anybody here know WHY the test has been retired, other than glib
answers of the form: "because nobody bothered to take it" :-) ?

I can't seem to understand how it could fade away without hardly any
comment - it has now gone for 4 months and I only found out today. RPG may
not be dead, but IBM sure are doing a good job at burying the body! We no
longer qualify for Specialist Certification, but you can be a specialist in
any other Rational, Tivoli or Lotus product. There is plenty for the Java
and SQL crowd too. Anybody fancy IBM Information Management pureXML
Technical Mastery? It'd be funny if it wasn't so sad and so predictable.

It almost feels like we'd be lucky in a few years if we could get an i OS
emulation running on our PC along with Commodore 64 and Atari.

Just had to clear my throat! Gah!!!

Feel better now :-)

Cheers

Larry Ducie



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