I can only speak for myself, but when I started it was at a big shop (10,000+
users) that had 8 separate processors and 28 Systems Programmers to keep things
going. They were split into several/many areas within the main group TCAM,
VTAM, CICS, IMS, JES, Performance & capacity, TSO, Production s
How has system programming changed over the mainframe's life? Over your
career? What did you do in the early days, what do you do now? Is it
still "system programming" or ... what?
Has traditional system programming become some/mostly/all system
administration?
Has how you divide time between ta