John, Actually, I do agree with you, and no offense was taken. \ Interestingly enough, when I was interviewing here, it was for a sysprog opening.
After being interviewd by the sysprog manager and the VP of operations, I had a "final" interview with the CIO. The CIO noticed on my resume that I had some experience in the RACF arena (can you say GSD-331....); he asked if I would be interested in a RACF job for the same pay - he felt that his security organizaion needed more technical mainframe knowledge - someone who could intelligently interface with the sysprogs and rest of the data center. The rest is history. Our CIO is not your run-of the-mill executive - he started professional life as an operator on a mainframe. Randy -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of John Gilmore Sent: Monday, September 30, 2013 10:43 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Work long hours (Was Re: Pissing contest(s)) I do not know Randall Gross personally, and it was anyway no part of my intent to impugn the competence of any particular mainframe security specialist. I indeed made it clear that I judge that the effectiveness of such groups varies widely. I am nevertheless unrepentent about my view that most of these groups are no great shakes technically, bureaucratically orient[at]ed, and ineffective. I am not sure just how 'staggering vacations in financial institutions' dissolves collusions. It may well prevent them during the interval when either of, say, two colluders is vacationing; but there would still be ample opportunity for collusive misbehavior during the the nine months (assuming six-week non-overlapping vacations for each of two colluders) when both would be present. Indeed, the historical rationale for these longish bank-officer vacations|holidays has been that they provided opportunities for the detection of fraud, not that they prevented it; and for this purpose simultaneous vacations for two colluding officers would be more effective. John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN