Yep, I totally agree with John McKown. Z/os is a complex beast with many components , hardware and software. A support person just can't be thrown into this situation unless the know what is going on or trained correctly.
Scott ford www.identityforge.com On Sep 6, 2012, at 8:29 AM, "McKown, John" <[email protected]> wrote: > I will disagree with this statement, slightly. Such a person has not been > sufficiently trained in z/OS. And should not have been made responsible for > as much as he has. But many companies today seem to assume that if they give > you a job, say moving you from Windows to z/OS, then you automagically get > the knowledge needed to do the job. I am assuming that the OP did not > deliberately misrepresent himself to his employer. I have literally heard a > manager indicate if you know how to admin a Windows box, then you *can* admin > a Linux server or z/OS system, because "they'are all the same!" Said manager > is no longer employed here. > > ________________________________________ > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] On Behalf Of > J. Cassidy [[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2012 3:31 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: IPL Probelm. > > If you do not know what a waitstate is you should not be near a Mainframe > nor asking questions in this forum. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
