Hi Eric, May I be the first of many to wish you all the very best in your future endeavours. Seemingly for as many stories we read regarding the Mainframe resurgence, inevitably M & A, consolidation, infrastructure and other events generate data centre shutdown events and consequences for associated personnel. On the plus side you have amazing skills as it would seem that you like many of us have worked in a smaller shop and so have had experience of all Systems Management disciplines, including OLTP, RDBMS, Scheduler, Networks, et al; so the IBM Mainframe Systems Programmer generally has both technical and process skills that could be readily available for a modicum of cross-training into other technologies; should you not be able to find an IBM Mainframe Systems Programmer role in your area. Maybe this is something you have probably already considered?
As a limey I have no real idea of IBM Mainframe installations in your location, but I speculate that the truly enlightened employer would not be overpowered by receiving a copy of your résumé for their consideration, while maybe you could express a desire to learn new technologies, as and when required, which may include programming and/or Systems Administration for UNIX/Linux/Wintel environments. In my experience, the genuinely enlightened and caring employer, therefore the ones that we would like to work with, will value your experience and background and if you have the drive and interpersonal skills to engage such an organization, then hopefully you will get what you deserve very, very soon. Keep smiling, keep trying and keep being you and allow the realm of possibility to exist. Best Regards, UK Mikey. www.value-4it.com Maximizing The Business Value-4IT Resources Within Your Organization On Tue, 18 Apr 2006 16:27:29 -0500, Eric Bielefeld <Eric- [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I just thought I'd give you all a status on our datacenter. The time >is short. My last day, unless I hear otherwise soon, is 4-28. >Yesterday at noon we shut down all of the CICSs, which were still >running in read only mode. I was amazed at how many messages were >coming from VTAM saying that people were trying to log on to >applications that are down. I counted 128 attempts to log into CICSs >this morning from 6:00 to maybe 11:00. >.... >Eric Bielefeld >Sr. Systems Programmer >P&H Mining Equipment >414-671-7849 >Milwaukee, Wisconsin ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
