Cobol - Re: Possibly stupid question for you IBM mainframers... :-)

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Re: Possibly stupid question for you IBM mainframers... :-)

Joe Morris

2004-07-13, 3:55 pm

"William M. Klein" <wmklein@nospam.netcom.com> writes:

>What part of the country are you in? There are actually some (not many)
>Community Colleges still providing IBM-centric "JCL, CICS, Utilities,
>whatever) courses. I know that near me, Northern Illinois University
>has fairly extensive courses.

....and I'll bet that a lot of the reason for that is Dr. Robert Rannie,
who until the early 1980s was my opposite number at Oak Ridge National
Labs. I've never been to NIU, but knowing Robert I expect that
anyone who gets through the classes he teaches there can be assumed to
understand what's going on inside both the OS and the computer.

Joe Morris

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