I think many of the estimates people have givin on this thread seem really high for the number of sysprogs to staff a z/OS site. At P&H, for the last 10 years or so, we had 3 sysprogs. We only had a 115 MIP machine, so were very small.
I know of a couple of companies in Milwaukee, where the total sysprogs are in the 4 to 8 range - i think closer to 4 than 8. They both are very large. I know one has at least 15 to 20 Lpars on several machines. The other is just one of the larger z boxes, and I don't know how many Lpars there are. My last job had 4 sysprogs with about 2,000 MIPS. They only had 4 Lpars on 2 CPUs. -- Eric Bielefeld Systems Programmer Aviva USA Des Moines, Iowa 515-645-5153 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
