Mainframe Infrastructure roles?

[Sushil]

Hi,

I want to move in to the infrastructure side roles. Do we have only DB2 admin . CICS admin kind of roles in mainframes for this when we look for infrastructure of mainframes? I searched on it but the results are confusing like only admin type roles are there.

[Robert Sample]

Part of the problem may be terminology. People supporting mainframes are usually called system programmers and there are far more types of system programmers than just DB2 or CICS.

[Sushil]

Thanks. If they are system programmers who are admins? Sorry but it looks like that these terms are used for each other.

[enrico-sorichetti]

in the IBM world

system/systems programmer is the term/role that has been in use from the beginning
for people dealing with the installation,customisation,maintenance ( problem determination/resolution) of systems software
( system side )

later on
the administrator term/role came up oriented towards the user/application side of things
for technical, organisational, and - sometimes - legal reasons
( user / application side )

[Robert Sample]

Well you need to decide which way you want your career to go -- if you want to install / support mainframe software, you need to start looking at system programming positions. If you want to install / support applications or Linux/Unix systems, you need to start looking at admin positions. There is rarely overlap between them.

[vasanthz]

I'll let you know what I know about Indian job market, I could be missing some roles but here are some of them.. The system programmer role is split into these major roles

Network Systems support
MVS/zOS Support
Performance & Capacity Engineering
Storage Management
Application DBA
Systems DBA

[vasanthz]

+ CICS systems programmer