It would be an interesting concept to have a team of old farts to provide support for one or a few Z/OS sites, they could provide backup for each other and 24x7 availability without being over taxed. We've all had the rash of grass fires that eat all the hours available in a few days. They could chose what percentage of full time they wanted to participate and build support schedules accordingly.
I always worked in what were small shops, from 1 to maybe 4 main "OS" people. Sometimes we had VTAM, DB, CICS and/or VM people, but the teams were small enough to be agile and yet could sanity check plans against others expertise before blundering into some bear trap. Len Rugen University of Missouri Division of Information Technology Systems & Operations - Metrics & Automation Team ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] on behalf of Lester, Bob [[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2016 4:23 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: EXTERNAL: Re: remote system support (i.e. the data center is 2 states away from you). Hi Len, Same here. I'm not sure if my 40+ years of MF experience will be in demand for much longer. I hope so - it's still may favorite platform. These days, I'm working on lunix/unix to add to my knowledge, and to hopefully keep a job. :-) I've been following these threads with much interest, as I'm approaching 60 and want to know what my options are. Thanks! BobL -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Rugen, Len Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2016 3:01 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: EXTERNAL: Re: remote system support (i.e. the data center is 2 states away from you). [ EXTERNAL ] I've contemplated retiring from my current post-mainframe job sometime if I could find a fitting at least mostly remote job. Another option would be short term contracts and living the RV life :-) I wonder how long my mainframe knowledge will be marketable, how may year away is too long? The other alternative is the same setup, but my current skill set, Linux, Zabbix, DEV-OPS and maybe soon Splunk or ELK. If you search the MXG logs or the various Listservs, you'll find my name, we just didn't know that kind of cooperation was the future of "open source" :-) Len Rugen - The past owner of IMS-L :-) University of Missouri Division of Information Technology Systems & Operations - Metrics & Automation Team ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN This e-mail transmission may contain information that is proprietary, privileged and/or confidential and is intended exclusively for the person(s) to whom it is addressed. Any use, copying, retention or disclosure by any person other than the intended recipient or the intended recipient's designees is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient or their designee, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete all copies. OppenheimerFunds may, at its sole discretion, monitor, review, retain and/or disclose the content of all email communications. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
