Re: switch from CA-SYSVIEW to SDSF

2008-04-21 Thread Craig McGinnis
Not completely true. Sysview can also act as a very good spool management utility in addition to the functions you mentioned and many others (way too many to list). When I was at a previous company, we actually replaced SDSF with Sysview. That was several years ago when SDSF wasn't as nice as it

Re: z/OS system programmer staffing

2008-02-11 Thread Craig McGinnis
One other factor to consider is the level of expertise that your DBA and Developer community are. It depends on what role your systems programming staff plays in supporting the general IT community at the company. I know of places where two to many sysprogs are fully employed just in supporting