Yes, Salaries would be rising, so would job opennings. I blame the VM developers at IBM, if they didn't produce such a great product we might need twice as many sysprogs. Years ago it used to take me anyplace from 6mo. to a year to install a new release of the operating system. Now it takes less than 1 month.
-----Original Message----- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Mary Anne Matyaz Sent: Friday, February 22, 2008 9:20 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Article: In Search of Mainframe Engineers You know, I've been thinking about this and I just don't think I buy this article, or this hoopla that we've heard for several years about the aging mainframer and how to replace them and how scarce they are. I just don't see that many job openings for MVS or VM. And I sure don't see skyrocketing salaries, in fact IBM just cut salaries of a lot of mainframers 15%. Now that is supposed to be offset by overtime but those that I've talked to indicated overtime isn't allowed. Personally, I think this is just a way to get more h1b visas approved. If MVS or VM sysprogs were such a hot commodity, salaries would be rising. Thoughts? MA
