On Thursday, 10/26/2006 at 02:30 AST, "Chicklon, Tom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, putting MVS back into the name would certainly help those who left the > support ranks when it was called MVS, and now have to deal with recruiters > and personnel folks who think that MVS or (OS/390) skills have nothing to do > with being a z/OS system programmer.
Well, speaking only for myself, I would market myself as having VM/ESA and z/VM skills. I also have some knowledge of MVS, OS/390, and z/OS. Now, if the uninitiated think I know 5 operating systems, that's ok with me. But my CV would contain all the necessary buzz^h^h^h^h keywords needed to get a hit on someone's search. In addition to VM/ESA and z/VM, I also know CP and CMS, so make that 7 operating systems, right? Not to mention the *3* major communication subsystems: VTAM, TCP/IP, *and* CommServer. (But, wait, z/VM doesn't *have* CS... you know that, I know that, but does the recruiter know that?) See the point? What IBM calls it is irrelevant and, as you have seen, name changes can muddy the waters. Play the game. If you have z/OS skills then you have MVS and OS/390 skills, don't you? And JES, and TSO, and ... "What's in a name? That which we call a rose By any other word would smell as sweet." Alan Altmark ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
