Steve, I completely agree. I looked for 6 months for something close to or in Tampa, FL, with no luck. I did some contracting but had to travel each week. No more. I have looked for remote support but as you stated they want you to move to either Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa or Washington. I consider those states southern Canada and will not be moving anywhere near them. With VPN's these day, remote is a snap. I did it for 3 companies over 6 months and it was as if I was at the next desk of others who did live there. Skype allows meeting attendance so I do not get the problem with it. I have since sort of retired but if something ever comes up I would attempt it again. Sorry to hear I am not the only one.
John Clifford Z/OS systems programmer (semi-retired) On Mon, Feb 6, 2017 at 11:00 PM, Steve Beaver <st...@stevebeaver.com> wrote: > I am getting at least one call a day (zOS SYSPROG/ARCHITECT jobs) that want > me to relocate to somewhere I don't care to be and they refuse to allow > remote at least 75% of the time then they do not want to pay all my > expenses. > > The latest rash is for the DC/BWI area are that need people with SECRET or > better clearances -- That is no problem and they will get close to what I > am > asking, but I have had enough of traveling and living in hotels for their > convenience not mine. > > Steve > > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On > Behalf Of Clark Morris > Sent: Monday, February 6, 2017 8:13 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: Mainframe jobs > > [Default] On 6 Feb 2017 11:53:05 -0800, in bit.listserv.ibm-main > li...@akphs.com (Phil Smith III) wrote: > > >Network World: > > > >By some estimates there will be more than 84,000 open positions in this > >field by 2020. > > > > > > > >http://www.networkworld.com/article/3161857/hardware/as-baby-boomers-re > >tire- the-shortage-of-mainframe-professionals-grows-more-acute.html > > > Given the slow and steady attrition of z series shops and movement to the > cloud, I do not believe it. Are the salaries for mainframe technical > people > increasing? Are there mass recruitments for COBOL programmers or increased > salaries and contract rates? I am grateful to have been able to retire > when > I did. I doubt the estimates given on the number of lines of COBOL source > for programs that are still actively in production given the number of > systems that have been replaced by packages such as SAP. What is the > attendance at SHARE these days? I doubt it is as high as when I was > participating in it. > Guide has been gone since 1999. I doubt many of the newer ISV packages are > written in COBOL. There isn't the same small system support for the 360 > architecture there used to be and I doubt many organizations upgrade to z > from the IBM i series. If any organization starts out on any system that > is > ASCII/ISO oriented, I don't see that organization going through the pain to > get to z/OS and conversion to EBCDIC. > > Unisys is selling Intel based servers running either OS2200 or MCP, with at > least the OS2200 based systems running with emulated code through firmware. > I doubt either are being sold to new customers. > > Given the various Windows, Linux and Unix offerings I doubt there is much > of > a growth market for z series or for any other mainframe architecture. > > Incidentally, how secure is TPF? I understand that it used be sort of like > Windows 3.1 in that everything was in the same address space for > performance. > > If your shop was on Windows or some Unix variant for all of its processing, > would you recommend converting to z series? > > Clark Morris > > > > > >Now, that would be nice, but.um.I don't think so. > > > > > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >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 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
