One wonders where an aspiring techie is to get the experience William H
demands ("expects" seems a little tame given the prior post) of "systems"
dump readers these days.
The luxury of having a job in a z/OS shop where one can play at will in
authorised libraries is a ephemeral one I'd reckon. The shops I visit have
minimal assembler interest - even where they retain some (old) exits for
instance. I can't imagine anyone in any of those sites being allowed the
opportunity to wallow around and learn scheduling of xmem tasks, and then
spend days (at least) trying to figure out the SADump when the system
disappeared into a puff of smoke.
I can't even conceive of the ISVs allowing it.I'd like to be proved wrong, but I just can't see it. What I can see is an increasingly incestuous merry-go-round of skilled adepts being "induced" into competitors (vendor) shops. Maybe it was ever thus. Shane ...
