Systems Programmer IV opening

> Salary: 6196.00 Monthly
>

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> From: Chuck Greeson <william_greeson@admin.state.ak.us>
> To: Tim Jordan <timothy_jordan@labor.state.ak.us>
> Subject: Re: Systems Programmer IV
> Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 14:43:22 -0800
>
> This is an IBM mainframe environment, hosting most of the state's main
> transaction business applications and typically serving about 4-6,000
> logged-in state workers at any given time during the day, as well as
> providing legacy back end services to a variety of web apps. (It used
> to be called MVS, but now it's z/OS.) On the same machine, one
> of four mainframe processors is dedicated to running Linux under the
> VM operating system. This allows the single processor to run 40-60
> virtual Linux servers, each about equivalent to a non-cpu intensive
> 2-banger Linux intel box with a gig or so of RAM.
>
> The machine is physically located in Juneau in our data center here,
> but can be managed remotely. Qualified applicants are very rare as
> this job requires a number of years of systems level experience on
> MVS/z/OS. It is a very proprietary IBM OS based on the 360
> architecture which was created 40 years ago, quite different from
> Windows or Unix/Linux. Unfortunately, since they've had 40 years to
> work on it, it's quite a bit more complex than either of the mid-range
> systems. We actually have two teams here - those who work on mid-tier
> (Solaris, Linux, and Windows) and those who work mainframe.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Tim Jordan
> To: william_greeson@admin.state.ak.us
> Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2004 6:12 AM
> Subject: Systems Programmer IV
>
> Mr. Greeson,
> As an experienced Windows and Linux administrator I'm curious
> to know how many applicants qualify for this type of position?
>
> I'm currently working for Network Services (Domain
> Administrator) and would like to learn more about the State's
> IBM Z800 (z/OS and Linux IFL) enterprise server environment.
> Is this a distributed environment? If so could I arrange a
> tour of the Anchorage facility?
>
> Thank your for your consideration,
> Tim Jordan

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