My experience is that corporate culture, naming conventions, process flow, etc., are usually not well documented. I would expect delays from learning nontechnical aspects of the environment.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Laurence Chiu [lch...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2023 7:37 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: How long for an experiened z/OS sysprog to come up to speed on a new environment? This is probably a how long is a piece of string question but I said I would ask management anyway. Environment z/OS (of course) Z13's and Z15's Two sites with DWDM connectivity. DS8K SANs and TS77XX VTS Parallel Sysplex DWDM between the sites, Metro Mirror, HyperSwap, VTS grid. We are running into resource constraints in delivering an aggressive development plan which includes' - a new Sysplex for an independent business unit - moving data off an existing VTS grid and creating a whole new one which will require having an existing VTS having its data lost - Repopulating the VTS across the DWDM using COPYCAT - installing new VTS - possibly new DS8K and later one a new Z15 Assuming we could find suitably qualified z/OS and storage sysprogs, given decent documentation etc. how long would somebody like that take to be productive and ease the workload? As a secondary question, are there companies who specialise in z/OS sysprog services as body shops? And I don't mean the usual suspects :-) Thanks ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
