On Fri, 5 Mar 2010 16:24:51 +0000, Ted MacNEIL <[email protected]> wrote:
>>No, I wouldn't call it popular, but I wouldn't call it rare either. >>I have worked on VM off and on throughout my career. > >Outside of IBM, I've only met two people with VM and MVS skills. >This is in the Greater Toronto Area, over the last 30 years. >To me, that's rare. That is your experience, which is what you are writing about. I will say it is much more rare these days than it was 20 years ago. At least in the Chicago area. There used to be a lot of shops running VM along with MVS (and hence many sysprogs with experience in both) but many of them got rid of VM. The last full time VM I supported was VM/XA but I also worked with VM/ESA and VM/HPO not long after that but there was a full time VM sysprog that really supported those environments when I worked on them. It wasn't until zLinux popped up that I started working with VM again, which I think is getting more and more common, so the dual skill set is making a come back. Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS mailto:[email protected] Mark's MVS Utilities: http://home.flash.net/~mzelden/mvsutil.html Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
