When we were in to our final year of having our MVS datacenter, my boss had the great idea that he should higher a contractor 2 days a month, just in case I got run over crossing National Ave. (a very busy street where cars don't always stop for the stoplight) in front of the plant. There are no more contractors in the Milwaukee area, and we ended up finally hiring one who lived in Florida. She was very good, but in my opinion totally unneccesarty, although I was looking for a job at that time. I know she had at least one client where she was the only sysprog, and did all upgrades and maintenance to z/OS. There wasn't really anything for her to do at our shop, but she did have one client where I think she was it. I think it was a university in Texas.
Eric Bielefeld Sr. Systems Programmer 414-671-7849 Milwaukee, Wisconsin ----- Original Message ----- From: Mark Zelden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thursday, June 29, 2006 8:39 am Subject: Re: Identify Paging Datasets To: [email protected] > >A one-man z/OS shop??? I don't believe that. > > Believe. I know of several small shops with just 1 sysprog. That > doesn'tinclude the small ISVs that may be running on FLEX or P390 > still. I > know another shop that has 0 sysprogs left and just runs on contract > sysprog support on an as needed basis. > > Mark > -- > Mark Zelden > Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead > Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group > mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > z/OS and OS390 expert at http://searchDataCenter.com/ateExperts/ > Mark's MVS Utilities: http://home.flash.net/~mzelden/mvsutil.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
