On Thu, 2007-05-03 at 12:12 -0500, Anthony Saul Babonas wrote: > I'm curious. How difficult would it be a a zOS sysprog to become > proficient in a like type position on a Windows or UNIX based system?
I don't know of a "like type position" in the MS-Windows world, where programmers aren't typically employed to do sysadmin work. (When I was a little more youthful, and a lot more brash, I'd refer to some of the more shallow sysprogs as "parameter jockeys". Today they'd be called "sysadmins".) > About 10 years ago I took a couple of classes in Novell and deduced > that anyone with zOS sysprog background could become a guru in 2-3 > days. Wow, you grossly underestimated the amount of effort it takes to become proficient. Back in the day (pre-NDS) I built and managed our company's Novell network. In the process I wrote some bindery applications, the C API to support them, and a handful of NLMs. At that I only scratched the surface of NetWare. If all you want to do is add and remove users, sure, a couple of days training is all you need. But if you are responsible for your corporate infrastructure... well, you should be intimately familiar with the tools at hand. A week of training isn't going to cut it. (That's not to say you can't run your shop with only sysadmins. Lots of people do. But you should have a VAR on retainer who has some *real* expertise, and who is available to you at the drop of a hat.) -- David Andrews A. Duda and Sons, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
