Sam,
With all the respect - I dare to disagree. Totally disagree.
While knowledge of "MVS core" is very valuable, it doesn't necessarily
mean the person who knows it had to work with OS/360, had been witness
of virtual storage introduction, etc. The most clever folks I met are
simply to young to remember anything before OS/390. The persons I know,
which remember VOD (Very Old Days) usually didn't make any progress
since then. I also admit, I know exceptions - very, very knowledgeable
folks who still learn new things.
I agree that management usually cannot say whether job candidate is OK
or simply "looks good". That's why sometimes the rely on tech people to
assess candidate's knowledge.
In my experience 90% of activities in exploitation team doesn't require
any "core MVS" knowledge. It does require good knowledge of "add-ons",
like WLM, SMS, HSM, batch scheduler, RACF, DB2 etc. etc.
I witnessed opinions & complaints like:
"don't tell me about WLM and your goal mode, we DON'T NEED IT"
"ah, that's why my VSAM password does not work. Can we switch to the old
mode?"
"SMS? Why SMS?"
"We don't need RMM. Everybody knows about his own tapes"
"HSM? We can do backups using our jobs (IEBGENER)"
"only UID(0) can access USS shell and files" (common mistake: 700
instead of 755 on "/")
"why to protect all the datasets? PROTECTALL is dangerous"
Young people can be lazy as the old farts, but also can be diligent,
gifted and enthusiastic like the exceptions I mentioned. Those young
guys usually start with "add-ons" and then broaden their knowledge.
My $0.02
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