I used to do a lot in a VM shop before I became the SNA guy. 

Scott ford
www.identityforge.com

On Aug 17, 2012, at 7:19 PM, Gerhard Postpischil <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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.
> 
> Gerhard Postpischil
> Bradford, VT
> 
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