I started out in computer operations on large-scale IBM mainframes in 1968.
That's coming up to 50 years next March. I studied IBM courses and became a systems engineer - but didn't program. I was expert with TSO command files and IBM JCL, creating job streams for production and development shops. I was also doing sysgens for IBM MVS and VM systems. In 1978 I got introduced to Dec Ultrix (BSD flavoured Unix) and relational databases. I became an Oracle / Unix / Linux DBA and have been doing this work to the present.
I started out in computer operations on large-scale IBM mainframes in 1968.
That's coming up to 50 years next March. I studied IBM courses and became a systems engineer - but didn't program. I was expert with TSO command files and IBM JCL, creating job streams for production and development shops. I was also doing sysgens for IBM MVS and VM systems. In 1978 I got introduced to Dec Ultrix (BSD flavoured Unix) and relational databases. I became an Oracle / Unix / Linux DBA and have been doing this work to the present.