On 8/17/2012 6:43 PM, Frank Swarbrick wrote:
How many systems programmers do programming as part of their systems programming job?
I would think that this would vary drastically based on the type of installation. For a financial institution, perhaps never, for a service bureau, heavily, especially if you consider writing system exits as part of programming.
At my first three major jobs, when we weren't testing or installing systems updates, our time was spent writing "system" utilities (e.g., recover data from a bad SMF dump tape). If you look at the early CBT tapes, you'll note that contributions tend to be bimodal - early efforts by newbies, and technically sophisticated contributions from systems people.
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