Don't forget about related areas. With a Mainframe background, storage management would easily fit, maybe security (we do do it best after all), and DR (for a reasonable shop size it's easily an FTE (or 2 or 3)), maybe even change management.
Then you can tell the squatty box gang "The Mainframe can do it, why can't you?" <grin> Ken ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --- Another possibility is performance analysis/capacity planning. If as a system programmer you have experience in setting up the WLM, getting the application programmers to write efficient code, checking the I/O subsystem response time and fixing problems, etc. it could be a natural conversion. Then once you've started on mainframe performance analysis you could move to other platforms and do it across the enterprise. Tom Kelman Commerce Bank of Kansas City (816) 760-7632 ***************************************************************************** If you wish to communicate securely with Commerce Bank and its affiliates, you must log into your account under Online Services at http://www.commercebank.com or use the Commerce Bank Secure Email Message Center at https://securemail.commercebank.com NOTICE: This electronic mail message and any attached files are confidential. The information is exclusively for the use of the individual or entity intended as the recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, any use, copying, printing, reviewing, retention, disclosure, distribution or forwarding of the message or any attached file is not authorized and is strictly prohibited. If you have received this electronic mail message in error, please advise the sender by reply electronic mail immediately and permanently delete the original transmission, any attachments and any copies of this message from your computer system. ***************************************************************************** ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
