Share.org They run (or did a couple of years ago when I last went to one) classes in ISPF that are quite informative.
-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Assembler List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Don V Nielsen Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2013 8:45 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: 3 job openings for mainframe Assembler/C programmers, dump readers Where might one one find good instruction on how to read a dump? This is probably my poorest skill and I should be better at it. On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 10:46 PM, William H. Blair <[email protected]>wrote: > This is being posted with the permission of the list owner. (My > sincere thanks, Jean!) > > The infrastructure team I work with has three openings for mainframe > developers and/or product support personnel who have experience with > any useful combination of the following: Assembler, C, dump reading, > SMP/E, security systems (RACF/ACF2/TSS), etc. We are looking for > people who can read dumps (at least a little bit), write code to fix > bugs, and develop new stuff in Assembler and/or C. We assume you know > JCL, TSO, ISPF, how to get around an MVS system, and read IBM doc. If > you are not a self-starter, please don't bother (we're not going to do > your job for you, and in many cases the only documentation that exists > is the code itself). It's OK to have to refer to POPS to make sure you > know how something works, but if you can't understand it or won't use > it, please don't bother. These positions do NOT require specific MVS > subsystem knowledge (JESn, IMS, DB2, CICS, etc.), but if you have any > we won't hold it against you (other groups concern themselves with > those things). We deal with common, core, bare-metal MVS services for > the most part. > > In other words, these jobs are perfect for people who like to hang out > here (provided that your interests and talents are not limited to > esoteric trivia ... I can probably beat you at that game). I can't > think of a better place to look for candidates, which is why I am > asking. Most of the group has been together for 23+ years, but we are > getting gray, some have retired or moved on, so we need more like us > ... gray hair or otherwise. Clearly, age is NOT an issue. Brains ARE > the issue. > > There is no "location" for these positions. While I live near Houston > TX, most mainframe developers, product support and QA folks work from > home. Few people have an office; most don't live near one in the first > place. Our four > zEC12 and z196 boxes are in Arizona, anyway, so everybody actually > works remotely. The team members live at locations that span 12 time > zones (from Hawaii to Russia & Israel). We do virtually everything > online or on the phone, so we really don't care where you live. These > positions are perfect for people who want to work, but don't want to move. > > If you have potential interest, please respond to me, individually, at > my personal email address. My email client can apparently neither > provide nor override the default Reply-To address for messages I send > to the list; therefore, do not mindlessly use either "Reply" or "Reply > All" (I guess you should consider that the first part of the IQ and > ability-to-follow-directions test). Instead, please direct your > response to me personally at mailto:[email protected]. There is no > need to forward your resume; I am not interested in reading it at this > time. Instead, I will tell you more about the positions, answer any > questions you might then have, and tell you how to formally indicate > interest (i.e., begin the application process). > > [email protected] > William H. Blair > MainView Infrastructure > BMC Software Houston TX >
