As I mentioned in the past, a friend is losing his job (and looking for the next one) because the company he works for is sending all systems programmer, operations and scheduling, as well as a lot of other non-mainframe, positions, to a firm in India. Well, this past week he had to sit down and explain what he does and so forth to the "Sr." Systems Programmer sent in by the outsourcing firm. Remember, one only gets ONE chance to make a first impression and this was the outsourcing firm's one chance. According to my friend, it did not look good. Other than the fact that this "Sr." Systems Programmer has never installed ANY base OS, he claimed, or so it's thought, that he installed z/OS 1.10, then, it's thought, he retracted that statement and replaced it with he worked on 1.10. Other scary thoughts..., he does not know ANY CA products, does not know who ASG, BMC, EMC are. Never worked with WLM, SMF, SAS, MXG, et. al... When the terms, USI, U29, UJV, U83/84/85 and TRT were mentioned the response was a blank stare. Does not know what a VVDS, VVR, NVR is. Never used IPCS, ISMF, HCD, and IOCDS related "stuff". Claimed he "knows" OSA but wanted to be shown how to configure it, etc... He even claimed he really knew TSO! Not the ISPF interface, which most people think is TSO, but TSO native from the command prompt. This boast was made because he knew how to drop back from ISPF and delete a dataset. In fact, other than "SMP/E", there was never a hint of recognition or understanding in the eyes of this "Sr." Systems Programmer. However, my friend went along since that is what was required of him. Yesterday this "Sr." Systems Programmer was rooting around the system just looking here and there and, as happens often enough, his ISPF Profile dataset went into extents and filled up. What really ticked my friend off was this "Sr." Systems Programmer sent an email to DASD administrator asking her how he, this "Sr." Systems Programmer, could increase the size of the profile dataset. He couldn't continue his duties because the dataset filled up... Sorry for the rant, but my friend had to get it off his chest, and I, passing it along, mine. There are plenty other examples but my friend just sighed and left at this. Gary Green I can use all the help I can get with my fight against cancer! Please support my efforts! Thank you. <http://www.active.com/donate/tntsonj/tntsonjGGreen> http://www.active.com/donate/tntsonj/tntsonjGGreen
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