I disagree to some extent. Some of the newbie questions may be due to the fact they have no one mentoring them. Or two, they do not have access to all the resources we do. Not all countries (ie Outside the USA) will not allow the written material to be available like we do inside the USA.
During my informative years as a SYSPROG in Training, I had people showing me how things work that had the insight and understanding that just is not available today. I can do a lot of "stuff" but I do not always know why it works. So how can I properly mentor someone about the ins and outs of a certain control block or I/O process, when I do not have the internal knowledge like I did in the old days. By going OCO IBM has dummed us down a bit. Those of us that have kept the really old manuals (logic, program guides, data areas, the first field books), we really do not know how things work as well today as we did back then. I would love to get that low level control block usage information back so I can understand why the I/O gets a certain messages or where JES2 put that output. And when IBM changes a control block or logic section inside the operating system, I would love to have someone explain how the new stuff works. Share is great but it is not like the good old days. Just my 2cents worth. Lizette > >>Now we are seeing evidence of new people (if not new workload) ... and >we >COMPLAIN about helping them?!? > >I would never complain about helping someone, but they need to >investigate something as far as their skill level permits. A number of >questions appear to be posted because someone was too lazy to look. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
