RE: Question for Admins, General

FTP
SFTP
SSL
SSH
Advanced Job Scheduler
HMC
LPAR
DLPAR
I5/OS upgrades
3rd party products install and upgraded

Paul

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From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Rob Berendt
Sent: Monday, January 16, 2017 7:49 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Question for Admins, General

Varies by shop, significantly.
Some shops that also includes security handling.
Some have BRMS, some do not.
Some use a Virtual Tape Library appliance, some use physical tapes.
Some send tapes to Iron Mountain, some do not.
Some use Mimix or like products, some use Power HA, some use nothing.
Some do their own PTF's and upgrades, some contract that stuff out, some never perform maintenance.

If you really want to look impressive for this position then look at the prereq's for these certifications. Decide if you have the experience. And go for the certification.
http://www-03.ibm.com/certify/certs/04010906.shtml
http://www-03.ibm.com/certify/certs/04010907.shtml
Now, you may not have 100%, like my knowledge of SAN is an ability to decrypt the acronym. That and some familiarity with SAN tape.
And the last certification I received was for IBM Certified System Administrator - IBM i 6.1.

If I was hiring for such a position and someone came in bearing these certifications there would be NO technical questions. Then it would just be personality and the whizz quiz.
Ok maybe these technical questions:
What areas of the certification testing do you think were your weakest and might require additional training?
Based on the description of the job what additional training do you feel you might require?

Rob Berendt
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IBM Certified System Administrator - IBM i 6.1 Group Dekko Dept 1600 Mail to: 2505 Dekko Drive
Garrett, IN 46738
Ship to: Dock 108
6928N 400E
Kendallville, IN 46755
http://www.dekko.com





From: Hoteltravelfundotcom <hoteltravelfun@xxxxxxxxx>
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 01/14/2017 06:57 PM
Subject: Question for Admins, General
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HI I am considering a new position that include some IBM I admin work.
Whether this distinction considers operator tasks I am including
operations.

If you are an admin, can you list the daily tasks you are doing?

My experience is with backups, Monitoring the system for instance looking
at percentage of memory used, looking at any jobs that are using massive
of
the memory, creating ODBC connections, printing issues, running jobs in
the
ROBOT-M.

Thank you,
Joe