George, I worked for a large American company aboard, one of the top 5 in the world, we has a staff including mgmt around 200, that was MVS , VM , Communications, and DR.
Sent from my iPad Scott Ford Senior Systems Engineer www.identityforge.com On Feb 16, 2012, at 6:19 PM, George Henke <[email protected]> wrote: > That is not my intent. > > Please do not divulge anything with which you do not feel comfortable. > > "Where ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise." Thomas Gray > > I am just trying to get a sense, a reasonability check, on how > labor-intensive a large zSeries shop is. > > > On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 6:11 PM, Scott Ford <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Yep Lizette, and how much money is in the budget ... >> >> Sent from my iPad >> Scott Ford >> Senior Systems Engineer >> www.identityforge.com >> >> >> >> On Feb 16, 2012, at 5:21 PM, Lizette Koehler <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>>> >>>> I am trying to find out how much staff, numbers and titles, eg z/OS, >> z/VM, >>>> VTAM/TCPIP, CICS, etc, are needed to run a large zSeries mainframe shop. >>>> >>>> Would some of you be so kind as to share that information with me. >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> George Henke >>>> (C) 845 401 5614 >>>> >>> >>> George the only answer I can give is - It Depends >>> >>> What is the hardware layout, how many mips, SLAs, software mix, external >>> contacts (vendors, business partners), transmission types (NJE, MQ), and >> so >>> on. >>> >>> You can find titles like >>> z/OS System programmer, z/OS System Administrator, Security officer, >>> Application developers, Network Security, Network Administrators, and so >>> many more. >>> >>> I know of no concise list that would give you information for such a >> broad >>> question. >>> >>> Could you narrow it down a bit? >>> >>> What is your definition of LARGE. From my vantage point, it is like >> asking >>> some one what is a tall person. If you are 3ft tall, then 5ft is tall. >> If >>> you are 6ft tall, then 5ft is small. All is relative. >>> >>> >>> Lizette >>> >>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> 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 >> > > > > -- > George Henke > (C) 845 401 5614 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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

