IBMMAIN Mainframe Linux Mythbusting Was: Using Java in batch on zOS

Marian Gasparovic

very Boyd and ooda-loop oriented

I sponsored Boyd a number of times at internal corporate seminars in the early 80s (it started out being slightly less than full day, but as Boyd evolved some of his talks it began harder and harder to get it all crammed into a single day) .... some number of people would go in thinking it would be a very non-civilian oriented talk and were surprised to find how applicable it was to all sorts of business endeavors (it has since become much more acceptable to reference boyd's ooda-loop concepts in business settings, especially where rapid adaptation and agility to deal with changing circumstances is required).

having projected in the late 80s that things were headed into the red and things would have to change ... in the early 90s, we would periodically visit places like somers for discussions on the subject. nobody would really disagree that things were going to have to change ... but you go back a couple months later and found nothing was changing.

one possible observation was that there were a large number of senior people with possibly 25-30 years experience and their perceived value was based experience in on a long standing, relatively consistent paradigm. any significant changes in the paradigm would significantly reduce the perceived value of these individuals' experience.

there appeared to be a large contingent of people that didn't disagree that things were going to have to change ... but they were doing everything possible to forestall it until at least after they, personally had retired (and then it would be somebody else's problem)