Digging a little further ... Sunflower Consulting and Services Co., Ltd. is a 100% Canadian owned Company operates in China. We specialize in IBM mainframe system and application services and have been providing high quality services to customers in China.
-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Comstock Sent: Monday, June 25, 2007 4:37 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [IBM-MAIN] Testing System Programmer Capabilities David Andrews wrote: > On Mon, 2007-06-25 at 15:06 -0400, Doug Fuerst wrote: > >>What, pray tell, is the point of this exercise? > > > Maybe the IS director is trying to justify another, more senior > position. The existing sysprog is the president's PFCSK son, a whiz > at windows - but not all that great a S390 gunslinger. > > Or maybe management wants to bring in a tester merely to *teach* that > PFCSK. > > Once upon a time I used to do something like this to/for members of my > staff. I'd arrange to come in way early in the morning, send the > operator out for coffee, and then do *something*. When the operator > came back, he'd find the IMS master complaining about e.g. a > recalcitrant PTERM. "Better take a look at that", I'd say unhelpfully. > > I'd watch him puzzle it out slowly, and offer leading questions if he > appeared to be stuck. "Is it active to VTAM?" "Is the phone line to > that campus operational?" "Do you know where the cables are for that > line? Are they connected?" By the time he got to that interface > switch that I'd flipped off on the oh-five, he'd gotten ten times as > much value out of the exercise as he'd have gotten from varying the > terminal off-and-on and calling a tech. > > Sure, test your sysprogs. Do it with good humor, and don't publish > the results - it's the testing itself that's important. Then when you > can't fool 'em anymore, they're promotable and you've done your job. > Note that the OP was with a Chinese consulting company located in Beijing. That might put a different light on the speculation. Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 http://www.trainersfriend.com z/OS Application development made easier * Our classes include + How things work + Programming examples with realistic applications + Starter / skeleton code + Complete working programs + Useful utilities and subroutines + Tips and techniques ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
