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This whole recent COBOL surge reminds me of a friend I had who was upset that he had a Bachelor's in Computer Science but still couldn't find a job while his fr
by BoysenberryPi 7y ago
This whole recent COBOL surge reminds me of a friend I had who was upset that he had a Bachelor's in Computer Science but still couldn't find a job while his friend with no college degree taught himself COBOL and got a job at a local bank.
- laurentdc 7y agoYeah, the devs I met with the most stable and laid back jobs are all AS400, COBOL/CICS or IBM RPG experts
- guessbest 7y agoThat's probably because they work in isolation from newer technologies which are constantly adding business rules. Most of the mainframe work I see involves maintaining old code bases and handling batch processing.
- lowercased 7y agogood guess. if the rest of the organization bends over backwards to ensure that you never have to update your code to accommodate, say, more than 8 ASCII characters in a password, or hashed passwords, and the rest of the org puts their security at risk to make sure your codebase never has to change... yeah, it might be a bit laid back... :)