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Yeah, the devs I met with the most stable and laid back jobs are all AS400, COBOL/CICS or IBM RPG experts

• guessbest 7y ago
  That'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 ago
    good 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... :)