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Frank Yaeger · Posted: Tue May 15, 2012 7:53 pm Post subject: Retiring after 43+ years with IBM

Just a note to let everyone know I'll be retiring at the end of this month (5/31/2012). I've been with IBM for 43+ years (plus a couple of summers in college) and I've enjoyed my career immensely. I've especially enjoyed being able to help people use the DFSORT/ICETOOL functions I developed, over many years, in new and interesting ways.

Once I retire, I won't be posting solutions any more since I won't have access to a mainframe to test them, and I don't like posting untested solutions. I may lurk a bit or I may not.

I'm looking forward to retirement, but I'll also miss this board. I'm happy to say that others on the DFSORT Team will continue to contribute.

Thanks to everyone for giving me the chance to earn a living all these years doing something that was a lot of fun for me.

Long live the mainframe, IBM, z/OS, DFSORT and ICETOOL!
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Frank Yaeger - DFSORT Development Team (IBM)
Specialties: JOINKEYS, FINDREP, WHEN=GROUP, ICETOOL, Symbols, Migration
DFSORT is on the Web at:
www.ibm.com/storage/dfsort

warp5 · Posted: Wed May 16, 2012 1:57 am Post subject:

Well, thank you Frank Yaeger for your vast contributions to this and other boards. You played a model roll in the forums with your professional attitude, model helpfulness, and turning requests and problems into solutions in DFSORT. The forums are losing one of their best!
I wish you a great retirement and that you will enjoy the new won time for relationships and just spending time in the area where you live (my daughter is now living in Berkely). Ever been to Bryce canyon? I also will be retiring at the end of the year.

Sqlcode · Intermediate Joined: 15 Dec 2006 Posts: 157 Topics: 38

Frank,

Wishing you all the best for the future.

Thanks,

kolusu · Posted: Wed May 16, 2012 10:36 am Post subject:

Frank,

Best Wishes to you on your Retirement ! It's been an honor and a privilege working with you for the past 4 and half years. You have been one of my inspirations and a great mentor. I learned lots and benefited from your expertise. I remember turning to you on many number of occasions for help and you ALWAYS gave me great suggestions. You have pioneered and invented many cool stuff in DFSORT. we will all miss you.

Kolusu

semigeezer · Posted: Thu May 17, 2012 12:04 am Post subject:

Frank, it's been great working with you here and learning from you. I wish you the best in your retirement.

Maybe you should see if IBM would spring for a copy of Rational Developer & Test Environment (formerly RDz UT) as a parting gift for you so you can have that legit mainframe environment we all know you so desperately want in in retirement (ok, really that WE so desperately want you to have, because really... only 43 years?) Smile

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Alain Benveniste · Posted: Thu May 17, 2012 5:45 pm Post subject:

Frank,

What can I say.. 8 or 10 years, spending my time reading your answers with the same interest, giving me a great pleasure to test and learn your solutions and the new features... Archiving so many tricky cases in my dfsort pds... Proud to be a addict dfsort gamer.

Sincerely
Alain from france

bob_buxton · Posted: Fri May 18, 2012 7:51 am Post subject:

Best wishes for your retirement.
Having left IBM a couple of years ago I wonder how I ever found time to work and have no desire to return.
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Cogito-Ergo-Sum · Posted: Sun May 20, 2012 11:32 am Post subject:

Hi Frank,
I will be missing you.

Had it not been for you (and also semigeezer, whom I met couple of months ago), your patience and your kindness, I would probably not have gained enough confidence to get here.

Thanks a lot for all your help !
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taltyman · Posted: Mon May 21, 2012 8:26 am Post subject:

Best wishes and enjoy your retirement.

vini · Posted: Thu May 24, 2012 3:29 pm Post subject:

Frank,

You have been a great (count infinite times) help on the board !!!

You will definitely be missed Crying or Very sad

but I hope you lurk sometime Surprised

. as you have so much knowledge to share and your so blessed to help those in need like you do with unbelievable kindness and patience.

I actually came on the board to take help from you today and saw this message.

God Bless You~

NorthernDancer · Posted: Wed May 30, 2012 11:12 am Post subject:

What was your 1st position hired into ?? Did you get the job right out of school? And what was your 1st salary they paid you ?? I made $7200/year back in 1974 !!!

Frank Yaeger · Posted: Wed May 30, 2012 12:35 pm Post subject:

I was hired as a programmer by IBM as a summer student (intern) in 1967 (in Manhattan) and again in 1968 (in Fishkill, NY). Then I was hired permanently as a programmer by IBM in 1969 in San Jose, CA. My degree was a BENE (Bachelor of Enginering in Nuclear Engineering) from NYU, but you didn't need a computer science degree to be hired as a programmer in those days.

I don't remember my first salary, but it seemed like a lot of money for a kid from Brooklyn. And I was absolutely thrilled to be in California (I still love it here).
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Frank Yaeger - DFSORT Development Team (IBM)
Specialties: JOINKEYS, FINDREP, WHEN=GROUP, ICETOOL, Symbols, Migration
DFSORT is on the Web at:
www.ibm.com/storage/dfsort