How big of a staff do you have on your mainframe?

2009-06-23 Thread Bill Washburn
This might seem like an odd request- But, as part of the platform analysis we're undertaking, I'd like to gauge how our staff size compares with other companies' resource allocation to their mainframe. What I'd like to know is how many employees/contractors do various companies have supporting

Re: How big of a staff do you have on your mainframe?

2009-06-23 Thread Mark Zelden
On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 11:59:24 -0400, Bill Washburn bwashb...@winwholesale.com wrote: This might seem like an odd request- But, as part of the platform analysis we're undertaking, I'd like to gauge how our staff size compares with other companies' resource allocation to their mainframe. There

Re: How big of a staff do you have on your mainframe?

2009-06-23 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Mark Zelden On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 11:59:24 -0400, Bill Washburn bwashb...@winwholesale.com wrote: This might seem like an odd request- But, as part of the platform analysis we're undertaking, I'd like to gauge

Re: How big of a staff do you have on your mainframe?

2009-06-23 Thread Hal Merritt
big of a staff do you have on your mainframe? -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Mark Zelden On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 11:59:24 -0400, Bill Washburn bwashb...@winwholesale.com wrote: This might seem like an odd request- But, as part of the platform

Re: How big of a staff do you have on your mainframe?

2009-06-23 Thread Bobbie Jo
-main To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Sent: Tuesday, June 23, 2009 12:29 PM Subject: Re: How big of a staff do you have on your mainframe? Because management will consider meaningless advice to be credible if they have to pay

Re: How big of a staff do you have on your mainframe?

2009-06-23 Thread Howard Brazee
On 23 Jun 2009 09:24:39 -0700, jch...@ussco.com (Chase, John) wrote: There are more than a few vendors you can pay to do this analysis for you and come up with the same meaningless results you can get on IBM-MAIN. But if the paid advice is worth the same as the free advice, why pay? Blame

Re: How big of a staff do you have on your mainframe?

2009-06-23 Thread Bill Washburn
:23 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: How big of a staff do you have on your mainframe? -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Mark Zelden On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 11:59:24 -0400, Bill Washburn bwashb...@winwholesale.com wrote: This might seem like

Re: How big of a staff do you have on your mainframe?

2009-06-23 Thread Tony B.
List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Bill Washburn Sent: Tuesday, June 23, 2009 10:59 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: How big of a staff do you have on your mainframe? This might seem like an odd request- But, as part of the platform analysis we're undertaking, I'd like to gauge how

Re: How big of a staff do you have on your mainframe?

2009-06-23 Thread Pommier, Rex R.
[mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Tony B. Sent: Tuesday, June 23, 2009 12:07 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: How big of a staff do you have on your mainframe? Oh yuk, you've just unleashed a storm of Survey Spam. You should have asked for private replies. We might be interested

Re: How big of a staff do you have on your mainframe?

2009-06-23 Thread Frank Swarbrick
Interesting. We are VSE currently, moving to z/OS next year. 1) 21 (including 3 managers who are also developers) 2) 6 (3 VSE only, 2 z/OS only, 1 VSE and z/OS) 3) 6 (I think; 2 per shift, 3 shifts) 4) 1 (I didn't include the manager of systems/operations above) 5) 0 6) Hmm, about 2000 I

Re: How big of a staff do you have on your mainframe?

2009-06-23 Thread Rick Fochtman
---snip--- This might seem like an odd request- But, as part of the platform analysis we're undertaking, I'd like to gauge how our staff size compares with other companies' resource allocation to their mainframe. What I'd like to

Re: How big of a staff do you have on your mainframe?

2009-06-23 Thread Silvio Camplani
In my shop, there is no new development. We support legacy applications on a small z9 running z/OS 1.9. I would say that 5% of the processing iremains on the mainframe. 1) ? (application support has been outsourced) 2) 2 3) 5 (they no longer cover the day shift) 4) dedicated = 0 (2 managers, 2

Re: How big of a staff do you have on your mainframe?

2009-06-23 Thread Bill Washburn
Re operations, we have about 10 minutes of 'traditional' operator tasks each day- loading and unloading the nightly DR/backup tapes, plus a couple hours of work on sundays to babysit a few tape reorgs which are too big to go disk-disk, and then kick off the weekly IPL. These tasks are performed by

Re: How big of a staff do you have on your mainframe?

2009-06-23 Thread Bill Washburn
Subject: Re: How big of a staff do you have on your mainframe? Oh yuk, you've just unleashed a storm of Survey Spam. You should have asked for private replies. We might be interested in the summary but not the ongoing tabulation. updating my subject line filter

Re: How big of a staff do you have on your mainframe?

2009-06-23 Thread Hal Merritt
Your levels roughly reflect ours with fewer app programmers and more sysprogs. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Bill Washburn Sent: Tuesday, June 23, 2009 10:59 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: How big of a staff do

Re: How big of a staff do you have on your mainframe?

2009-06-23 Thread P S
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 11:59 AM, Bill Washburn bwashb...@winwholesale.comwrote: This might seem like an odd request- But, as part of the platform analysis we're undertaking, I'd like to gauge how our staff size compares with other companies' resource allocation to their mainframe. If