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Name: Paul Marsland
Job Role: CICS Portfolio Development and Service Manager
IBM start date: 5th September 1988
Length working on CICS: 2 months |
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| What do you have to do with CICS? |
| Currently I'm the 2nd line manager for the development and L3 support teams. In the past, I've been involved in pricing (back when we introduced PSLC and usage-based pricing), cost estimating and market analysis for CICS. |
| What were you doing around 8th July 1969? |
| I was 2 1/2 then - busy recovering in hospital after being fed poison berries by my 4 yr old sister! |
| Fondest CICS related memory |
| Telling the new inbound American CICS pricer back in about 1993 that due to space shortages his new office would actually be the printer cupboard and that due to cost constraints he'd have to share usage of the print server as his desktop machine...and him believing it for all of 15 minutes. |
| “If CICS was to disappear tomorrow…..” |
| ...the L3 support team would probably claim that the reduction in the APAR and PMR backlogs was entirely down to their hard work and innovation, and the development team would just say they've finally closed the LID. |
| Name something else 35 years old that you still use. |
| I wouldn't describe her as something I still use, but my favourite 35 year-old object is definitely my wife, Fiona. |
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