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just relaying an offer I got, but I"m retired so if anyone else is interested:

Nine month contract assignment in San Antonio, TX - Mainframe Developer

10/5/2010



My name is Jennifer and I'm a Technical Recruiter at Advantage Technical Resourcing. Your skills are relevant to one of our current contract openings.



Job Title: Sr. Mainframe Developer

Duration: 9 months contract assignment

Location: San Antonio, TX

Compensation: $45-51/hr (w2)

Job Description:

Mainframe Programmer to be a key member on a merger team performing technical analysis to define key requirements and activities to migrate applications and data.
The primary goal is moving systems from the one mainframe to another mainframe. This includes but is not limited to modifying programs, copy and control library member changes, JCL changes, migration of critical data, changes to NDM interfaces and conducting testing that covers unit, integration and enterprise.
Candidate must be willing to research solution, deal with limited information and be a strong team player
Environment: VSAM, CICS, COBOL2, NDM/DIRECT CONNECT, FILEAID, MVS JCL, JES2, CHANGEMAN, ENDEVOR, XPEDITER, MS WINDOWS, TSO/ISPF, EASYTRIEVE, DB2, NDM, RACF, TOP SECRET.
May confer with technical personnel.
Performs related duties as assigned or requested.
Receives general supervision, and is competent to work at the highest level of technical phases of programming while working on own most of the time.
Must have EAD, GC, US Citizenship. No C2C partnerships.


If you have an interest, please contact me via phone, cell or email to discuss. Referrals are most welcome if you know of others in search of employment. Feel free to pass along my contact information.



Hope to hear from you soon.



Thank you,

Jennifer Wood-Gilmore
Advantage Technical Resourcing
(704) 717-7444 Ext.1211
jennifer.woodgilmore@advantageresourcing.com
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Do they require "punch cards" experience

Beiruty wrote:Do they require "punch cards" experience

You're mocking my skills, aren't you?

Beiruty wrote:Do they require "punch cards" experience

Nah, but you must know the difference in an 8" floppy and a tape

LOL, Quit making me feel old, you guys remember setting dip switches or jumpers prior to "plug-n-pray" too huh?
(Reminds me of trying to explain to my daughters what an "LP" was on a "record player")
Ask a youngster what "UMB" is nowadays and instead of saying Upper Memory Blocks they'll guess:
Ultra Mobile Broadband
University of Maryland, Baltimore
University of Massachusetts Boston

RPB wrote: Ask a youngster what "UMB" is nowadays...

Psh... 640k ought to be enough for anybody!

Do not Fold, Spindle or Mutilate

Changing Disk Packs

8", 5 1/4", 3.5" floppies... (What the heck is a floppy anyway?)

Go Load this Tape. (paper or magnetic)

Winchester Drive...

DSD 880

DOS v.1.0

Ok, guess I've embarrassed myself enough...

Don't make fun of punch cards, they make great scratch note cards on the back side, so long as they haven't been punched yet.

I was working for an insurance company in the late 80's and we still used the punch cards for one set of batch jobs that had not yet been converted to JCL. IBM would no longer service our machine, so we paid one of their techs on the side. These jobs ran once a year, and when the job scheduler called for them, we in Operations complained that it had not been converted. But the job had to be done by the end of the week, so not enough time for a programmer to convert it. I was later told this happened this way every year, with promises to convert it. But after it ran, it fell off everyone's priority list. The batch jobs - The annual stockholder's report.

Ron