I see his point. Maybe the companies could list the number of z/OS clients they support and/or the number of consultants on staff. For Syzygy, Inc. we have 105 active z/OS support clients/sites, 11 cross-support (z/OS software vendor) clients, 313 software clients (sites that run only our Syzygy software and not use any of our services), and 29 z/OS consultants, with several (I'm not sure how many, but I think not more than 9) "non-technical support" personnel, (i.e. accounts receivable, marketing etc.). We work with all (that we know of :) ) IBM and non-IBM z/OS Vendor software.
We are not anywhere near as big as IBM, but we also don't try to support the entire world. We only work with z/OS sites (and z/VM if it is there to run z/OS), and we have several long-term contracts with IBM and other software vendors to maintain and upgrade their z/OS based software. I'm sure that there are many, many "one band man" companies as well, but I think they tend to only support 1 (or maybe 2) small clients at a time, and tend to be fairly limited in the scope of the sub-system software they work with/on. We really don't consider them competition. Not because they aren't any good, but because they tend to provide their services on a much smaller and limited scope and to a (normally) different type of client that may not want very much in the way of "total" support capability. Brian On Wed, 2 Feb 2022 14:46:55 +0100, Radoslaw Skorupka <[email protected]> wrote: >-----Original Message----- >> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of >> Jim Elliott >> Sent: Tuesday, February 1, 2022 10:09 AM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Systems Programming / Operations support services in USA/Canada >> >> I am trying to build a list of companies in the USA or Canada that do >> contract systems programming / operations support for z/OS, z/VSE, and/or >> z/VM. I am not looking for outsourcers, just companies that can provide this >> sort of service on a long term basis. I don't believe this is such a thing >> (at least I can't find one) so any advice / suggestions would be >> appreciated. You can reply here or via e-mail. Thanks in advance. > >IMHO there are many "one man band" companies or very small teams. Their >names can be collected, but what is a reason to put them along with big >players? > > >-- >Radoslaw Skorupka >Lodz, Poland > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >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
