John Me and my team support datacenters in Virginia and Arizona from California. Our Virginia DC has no staff on site except for one facilities person.
We have worked remote from the DC's for many years - and yes flly remote workers can have a challenge whn they don't get the watercooler gossip, but it can be managed. Jerry Whitteridge Manager Mainframe Systems & Storage Albertsons - Safeway Inc. 925 738 9443 Corporate Tieline - 89443 If you feel in control you just aren't going fast enough. -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of John McKown Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2016 8:58 AM To: [email protected] Subject: EXTERNAL: remote system support (i.e. the data center is 2 states away from you). This is kind of a curiosity question and kind of serious. There is a chance that I might be offered a job where the data center is about 20 hours away by car (according to Google maps). Needless to say, there is no going in overnight to fix a problem. So I'm wondering if others here support a z/OS system where getting to the data center would be a long commute (unless you have your own plane, like some I know). How does that work out? In this shop, we haven't had any "operators" for about 5 years, maybe more. We systems people do all the hardware interfacing, tape management, IPL'ing, and "CE baby sitting" (being on-site while they work). This is really removed me from the historic paradigm. I somewhat like the thought of working from the house. But I also worry about being somewhat excluded from the unofficial information channels (i.e. company gossip). I also wonder about things like meetings and just being "invisible" and so "out of mind" when decisions are made. -- Heisenberg may have been here. Unicode: http://xkcd.com/1726/ Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ________________________________ Warning: All e-mail sent to this address will be received by the corporate e-mail system, and is subject to archival and review by someone other than the recipient. This e-mail may contain proprietary information and is intended only for the use of the intended recipient(s). If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient(s), you are notified that you have received this message in error and that any review, dissemination, distribution or copying of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately. ________________________________ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
