John, I worked a twin 4381 VM and VM/VSE shop for awhile and we had about the same amount of ppl
Sent from my iPad Scott Ford Senior Systems Engineer www.identityforge.com On Feb 16, 2012, at 7:29 PM, "Roberts, John J" <jrobe...@dhs.state.ia.us> wrote: > 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
