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 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
