Well stated. Also to consider, the degree to which this person/position will need to "play well with others".
-----Original Message----- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Smith, Ann (ISD, IT) Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2008 3:56 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Ten Questions to ask a Prospective z/VM Systems Programmer It depends on what specific things you want the z/VM systems programmer to support-such as: Install and maintain z/VM any specific IBM and ISV products under z/VM (SES and non-SES) any existing REXX exec's any existing Assembler programs any existing Exits and Mods guest operating systems such as VSE, zOS, Novell SuSE Linux, RedHat Linux. Will the zVM sysprog support just the zVM or install and maintain the guest OS as well? Support operators and provide procedures Hardware concerns (HCD/IOCP gens, dasd migrations, tape support etc.) Backup concerns (In-house and DR backups, DR procedures, tape encryption, etc.)