On Feb 11, 2008, at 11:25 AM, Yukus, Mary J CIV USMEPCOM wrote:
Can anyone point me in the direction of where to find a good (but
minimum)
estimate for staffing systems programmers (with various experience
levels)
to perform all functions of a systems programmer, including
installations of
OS and vendor software, applying maintenance, troubleshooting errors,
maintaining RACF, JES2, TCP/IP,CICS, Oracle, WLM, etc. on two z/OS
- z/OS.e,
two system sysplexes (not parallel) production system and test
system, along
with a z/VM OS/IFL used for LINUX instances.
Thanks in advance for any help on coming up with this staffing number.
Mary Yukus
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Mary:
You have gotten several good answers. Let me through this item into
the mix and you will still not have a good answer but will need to
think more about any number.
As always it "DEPENDS". If the installation has a fair amount of mods
to the OS then increase the number of sysprogs. How many well it
depends on the complexity of the mods and other things. A lot of
installations modify JES2 (or JES3) the amount of mods could add one
or two people to the MVS support side. If its a one or two line mod
then probably a small number. I am guessing here but a lot of
installations heavily (moderately?) modify JES3 then probably add 1
or 2 people. This an extremely rough estimate and the complexity of
the mods means a lot as to any number you come up with.
There are probably a lot few companies that modify MVS, but again it
depends on the number and the complexity. It is probably safe to say
that the number of companies making mods to MVS are small in number.
If you count exits here don't count them as mods but say a .5 of a
person.
CICS (and IMS) same thing. I knew a place that *HEAVILY* modified
CICS and they still can't run above the line. Like someone else said
the number of CICS regions sort of dictates the number of CICS
sysprogs. There are some installations that are just really complex
and those need more others are not quite a complex.
One place to look is to figure out how much OT the people are putting
in. There are pitfalls in using this but its one place to start,
don't use this as a final indication just factor it in.
Ed
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