Thanks everyone for your answers. This tells me we definitely should have more than 2 with a combined sysprog experience level of about 10 years. :-) (I knew this already, but am trying to justify more)
-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Luis Miguel Martinez Chavez Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 1:19 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: z/OS system programmer staffing Ideal: ZOS small shops. Few and small local/distributed applications, few LPARS, few ISV products, No Datasharing, One Sysplex, few CICS and DB2 regions/subsystems: 5 up to 10 sysprogs. ZOS medium shops. Local, distributed and Web applications, 10-20 LPARS, less than 10 ISV products, 10-20 CICS regions/subsystems: 15 up to 25 sysprogs. ZOS BIG shops. +1 Parallel Sysplex dozens of LPARs Data Sharing dozens of local,distributed and web applications dozenz of ISV products TB of Data dozens of CICS and DB2 regions/subsystems 1000s concurrent users : +30 sysprogs Reallity: It depends on the company's budget $$$$$ and the abilities of the IT Management. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
