My experience as a SYSPROG was a while back at a smallish insurance company in Vancouver. IIRC, this was a mid-size ES9000 running OS/390, CICS/ESA, and DB2. I think we had TCP/IP networking via Token-Ring attachment to a 3174 controller. I know we all ran DOS PC's running some 3270 emulator.
The systems department consisted of five guys: (1) One guy who specialized in the OS. (2) Myself who did the DB2 systems programming and DBA work. I also helped with CICS. (3) Another who did mostly CICS. (4) A team lead who did a little of everything, but mostly took care of the network and storage management. (5) A junior guy would supported all the third party software. And there was a manager who also had responsibility for the small app support team. I would consider this about the bare minimum for any z/OS shop. Consider too that our users were mostly 9 to 5 weekdays people. So we did not need extra bodies to support 24x7 operations. During the summer we were a bit stretched, sometimes with 2 people absent on vacation. But four of the five were pretty senior and could cover other areas in a pinch. John ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
