From: barbaranor...@USA.NET (Barbara Norman) Subject: future of MVS system programmers Date: 2000/06/29 Message-ID: <20000629133628.17058.qmail@nwcst315.netaddress.usa.net>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 640410686 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Organization: None Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Mime-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: 29 Jun 2000 13:37:03 GMT Reply-To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-M...@BAMA.UA.EDU> Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Hi All! As a new young(around 25yrs) system programmer, I am quiet interested and enthusiastic in learning MVS internals and want to persue my career in MVS itself. But always wonder, what will be the future of MVS and system programming. When I look at my friends in JAVA etc who have got lots of job opportunuties and making big money, wonder whether am I in the right path!! Please spare a word or two for motivation.. Barbara ____________________________________________________________________ Get free email and a permanent address at http://www.netaddress.com/?N=1 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO
From: jmayn...@CONMICRO.CX (Jay Maynard) Subject: Re: future of MVS system programmers Date: 2000/06/29 Message-ID: <20000629092607.A16888@thebrain.conmicro.cx>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 640431666 References: <20000629133628.17058.qmail@nwcst315.netaddress.usa.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: None Mime-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-M...@BAMA.UA.EDU> NNTP-Posting-Date: 29 Jun 2000 14:26:31 GMT Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main On Thu, Jun 29, 2000 at 07:36:28AM -0600, Barbara Norman wrote: > As a new young(around 25yrs) system programmer, I am quiet interested and > enthusiastic in learning MVS internals and want to persue my career in MVS > itself. But always wonder, what will be the future of MVS and system > programming. > When I look at my friends in JAVA etc who have got lots of job opportunuties > and making big money, wonder whether am I in the right path!! The best suggestion I can make is diversify. By all means, learn all you can about MVS and its relatives, but tackle Unix, Java, the TCP/IP style of networking, and anything else you can get your hands on. That will gove you insights into the way other systems work, and that will help immensely when it comes time to make it all talk. The MVS and datacenter experience will give you the right perspective on how to make things bulletproof, something Unix systems are still learning, and something NT systems appear to be stubbornly resisting. There's no reason to limit yourself to a small part of the world of computing. Don't, and you'll be much better off for it. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO