I feel the only constant thing about change is change. Everything is changing, especially in the IT arena. When the IT z/OS consulting market dried up I worked with Microsoft and Linux. You have to adapt to survive in this world. Flexiability is the key, I feel. I like many other guys and gals had a family to support so I looked at learning other platforms. I worked for a large software vendor we had 138 ppl supporting a file transfer product on 26 platforms. Most of us know at least two platforms, it was required to do your job and that was in the LU 6.2 days, before TCPIP was really big in the z/OS arena. I tell my kids the same, be flexible, cont be afraid to learn something new. Everyone has a skill set ...of some sort....
Scott J Ford www.identifyforge.com ________________________________ From: Ted MacNEIL <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 2:01:01 PM Subject: Re: IBM Program To Help Students Gain Critical Mainframe Skills Grows To More Than 600 Universities >MVS has hardly "stood still." If there are really those who haven't learned >anything in 30 years, how are they surviving in a world of WLM, SMS, the >logger, etc. etc.? D*mn good points! I was going to respond, but I couldn't find a polite way. There are many good (and progressive) changes in System z (s&h)/w, and a strong requirement to keep up! Yes, it has a few warts, but that's even a better reason to evolve. - Too busy driving to stop for gas! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
