Doc,
Are you looking for programs and code or discipline and procedures?
I'm not sure if this helps, but The Visible OPS Handbook
(http://www.tripwire.com/practices/visops.cfm) by Kevin Behr, Gene Kim
and George Spafford lays out a superb framework for change and
configuration management.
Is t
Doc,
The beauty of the VisbleOps material by Behr, Kim, & Spafford is it
provides a practical and easy-to-implement 4-step framework based on the
ITIL that Peter Greening mentioned in his reply.
Dave
>
> Procedures and disciplines only. I'm not too fussed about the
programs
> and code at this
>
> If there aren't any new mainframe shops coming online where are all
of
> these new trainees going to find employment?
>
I asked a similar question to an IBM sales rep at a z990 promotion
meeting in the fall last year in Washington DC, with the added twist of
where are the _current_ sysprog
> Allowing EBCDIC in the HFS was a colossal blunder; the pain
> is spreading. HFS should have been pure ASCII from the start.
> Autoconversion is an abomination that attempts to solve the
> attendant problems, but largely adds complexity, reduces
> predictability, and increases testing multi
It will depend on several factors.
For example, if you already have z/OS but do not have zLinux and
management is not interested in pursuing Linux on the mainframe, the it
seems the only route is a z/OS install.
If management is open to zLinux, but the application needs to be in
production ASAP,
>
> >Gartner's chief of research for outsourcing says companies
> have become
> >compulsive about outsourcing...
>
A new illness: Compulsive Outsourcing Disorder or COD
Does NIH have funding for this?
Dave
--
For IBM-MAI
Pretty innovative how the handled the COBOL programmer issue:
'But what about the COBOL programmer shortage IBM is predicting?
"We've skirted the issue by doing all of our COBOL in India where there
is virtually an unlimited supply. I can call and have 100 COBOL
programmers working on a project
>Why are mainframe people so reluctant to change ?
Not all of us are reluctant. I remember being in an SHARE session about
OpenEdition (gee, was it ESA 4.3 or 5.1, about 10 years ago). It was in
a small hotel room where the speaker was talking about this new feature
called OpenEdition and the roo
>
> >I remnember Texas Tech getting a speed "upgrade" to there 370/145
back
> >in the 70's. It consisted of the CE removing three loops from the
145's
> >microcode. The price tag for this upgrade? A cool $ 50K!
>
> Pretty extortionate... I'm sure there are third-party companies that
> did/do
>
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