Don't forget that the elimination of sysprogs has long been an IBM goal, because that's what our managers told them was a priority issue for our companies. Remember the OCO wars? At least the VM community didn't cave.
Mike Harding EDS VM National Capability 134 El Portal Place Clayton, Ca. USA 94517-1742 * phone: +01-925-672-4403 * Fax: +01-925-672-4403 * mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (personal) Note: For 2008, I am off on Fridays with odd Julian dates and Mondays with even ones. ________________________________ From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Huegel, Thomas Sent: Friday, February 22, 2008 7:28 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Article: In Search of Mainframe Engineers 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.
