Re operations, we have about 10 minutes of 'traditional' operator tasks
each day- loading and unloading the nightly DR/backup tapes, plus a couple
hours of work on sundays to babysit a few tape reorgs which are too big to
go disk-disk, and then kick off the weekly IPL. These tasks are performed
by someone in our network dept.
There are no production jobs or processes which require tapes or an
operator- we have automated everything within a job submission system that
puts everything into the hands of the users. When a user runs a batch 'job'
off the menu, it asks questions to build the parameters, then runs, and
then the user looks at the results in the list queue or some other CICS
interface. We don't print anything for internal use- although if a user
wants a printed copy of a report they are free to fire it off to their
laser printer.
So technically we don't have *zero* operator hours... but it is literally
less than a tenth of an employee.
Bill
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Interesting. We are VSE currently, moving to z/OS next year.
1) 21 (including 3 managers who are also developers)
2) 6 (3 VSE only, 2 z/OS only, 1 VSE and z/OS)
3) 6 (I think; 2 per shift, 3 shifts)
4) 1 (I didn't include the manager of systems/operations above)
5) 0!!!!
6) Hmm, about 2000 I think
How does your business work without operators? Everything is automated?
Frank
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On 6/23/2009 at 9:59 AM, in message
<of9e583346.97bb5d10-on852575de.005432de-852575de.0057d...@winwholesale.com>,
Bill Washburn <bwashb...@winwholesale.com> wrote:
> This might seem like an odd request-
>
> But, as part of the platform analysis we're undertaking, I'd like to
gauge
> how our staff size compares with other companies' resource allocation to
> their mainframe.
>
> What I'd like to know is how many employees/contractors do various
> companies have supporting and working within their mainframe environment,
> broken down in a few broad categories.
>
> 1) application developers
> 2) system programmers
> 3) operators
> 4) any other staff specifically dedicated to the MF (B/A's, managers,
etc)
> 5) contractors/consultants dedicated to your MF
> 6) total company employees
>
> Also, what operating system are you on? (VSE, z\OS, etc)
>
> For the record, our answers are
> 1) 4
> 2) 1
> 3) 0
> 4) 2
> 5) 1
> 6) 4100
>
> and we're VSE, with about 40% of our total data processing taking place
on
> our mainframe, and the remainder on other platforms.
>
>
> Thanks
>
> Bill Washburn
>
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