Hi Folks,
Throughout my career, I was always outside of IBM, except for one
short period, when I worked as a consultant at IBM to relieve the Level
2 queues. At that time, IBM was training its Level 2 people out of
college on ONE or (maybe) TWO components of MVS, for 18 months, to get
them up to speed. I don't know if any of those trainees ever got to see
a real data center.
When IBM hired us as consultants, we were up and working with ONE
WEEK's training. See the difference between one component people and
generalists? IBM knew that when they hired us. They only got us
because (at that time) it was a bad time for regular sysprog jobs, so
they had a pool of unemployed sysprogs to draw from.
Just an observation to show (again) that knowledge pays.
While I am on this subject, I want to throw in a comment about MVS
developers (who are also highly trained and knowledgeable). If you have
your own (low budget) software company, FLEX-ES (and the ADCD program)
have (until now) provided a way for developers to use their skills to
write good system utilites that improve the usability of z/OS. Unless
IBM themselves provide us with their OWN good emulator and an affordable
low-end hardware solution, THEY will be up the creek as well as us.
Don't they know that? Do they secretly have their own S/390 emulator in
the works? Otherwise, it would look like they are abandoning a large
component of the MVS (and VM and VSE) support structure.
Sincerely, Sam
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