Well, I remember a quite full pair of classes at NYU's School of Continuing Professional Studies back in the 80's titled "MVS Internals and Debugging I and II", so any of the 40 or so who took those courses at least have (or had) a pretty good idea about the original base system internals. Obviously any more recent developments are OCO, but there are still a few of us around alive and working with a reasonable base of knowledge who have learned more by observation and debugging experience. And not all of us went down the Systems Programming path, either.
I think NYU offered that pair of classes for at least several years, so there are probably more people with that base knowledge than I know about. I'll grant your point about "current knowledge of system internals" though. That's a much smaller posse. Peter -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of retired mainframer Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2015 6:06 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: z/OS Systems Software Developer Position > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Rob Scott > Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2015 11:33 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: z/OS Systems Software Developer Position > > The following job posting made with approval of IBM-Main list owner. > > Rocket Software is looking for a senior/lead/principal z/OS systems software developer to > work on an exciting product in our portfolio. > > Applicants should have the following skills : > > > (1) z/OS system internals OCO started in 1983. Who besides retired IBMers and NDA signers has any current knowledge of system internals? -- This message and any attachments are intended only for the use of the addressee and may contain information that is privileged and confidential. If the reader of the message is not the intended recipient or an authorized representative of the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by e-mail and delete the message and any attachments from your system. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
