As an MQ developer, I was at a customer who was interviewing contractors for a couple of MQ positions. We asked a couple of good meaty open ended questions, and listened to how they answered it. Some guys had good qualifications but little experience and tried blagging their way through. Some others did not have all the qualifications but made some good attempts at the answers. The later group were hired. Colin
On Sat, 18 Feb 2023 at 14:44, Paul Gorlinsky <[email protected]> wrote: > As a z/VM sysprog independant contractor for 30+ years, IMHO this is not a > question that can be definitively answered. > > The term sysprog has an extremely wide set of standards. For example, a > sysprog from blue's GS division is typically an installer, customizer, data > gatherer, etc. only for zOS and not TCPIP, VTAM, DB2, IMS, CICS, etc. > Whereas, as an independent contracting sysprog I learned and managed > everything zOS, including communications, security, TP monitors, data > bases, etc. > > Typically, I take about a day to peak at the running system and how it is > implemented, then start in on servicing the punch list from the customer. > But keep in mind, that I started on MVT and still work all the way thru > z/OS 2.5 ( as well as z/VM and z/VSE )... > > In other words, some sysprogs are trained to be part of a team of people > to manage the environment and others are lone wolfs ... each person is > unique in their learned abilities and their ability to learn... > > If the vendor is claiming 6 months ... look elsewhere ... IMHO > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
