by us02189 » Fri 01 Nov 2013, 16:06
Hi Robert,
just to be completelly correct to you, my name is Isidoro Atzori, I live and work in Italy. I was a Systemist/System Programmer in a Financial Company for 20 years, Mainly I was expert on CICS and MQ environment using ASM and Cobol languages as well as in the Mainframe most important tools (from TSO to JCL, QMF, VSAM, DB2, VTAM, etc..). It was as till 2005, then I changed position moving in Architect role and following, from 2008 as Senior Project/Program in international environment.
I was really enthusiastic discovering a free Mainframe environment in which recall my (old) competencies and, as mission, try to transfer part of them to yourger, that have few opportunities to learn about Mainframe environment.
My thought: Young people think knowing information technology because are able to to manage smartphone and sometime programming in 4th languages generation and do not have ability to work on not graphic tools like TSO that require concentration and ability, starting children of mine and their friends.
I was not bothered, as wrote above, enthusiastically excited now transformed in pain.
Thanks for reading.
Best regards.
IA