There are quite a few colleges that offer mainframe classes & lots of young people working on it. Too many have bought the mainframe is dead idiocy. For decades. The mainframe still processes the vast majority of important work and will for decades to come, long after most of us here are gone. Yes, plenty of kids are doing more “fun” work. It reminds me of 25 years ago when Microsoft certification was the hot tech. I’ve seen dozens of fads come and go that didn’t have the staying power of the good old IBM mainframe. Visual Basic anyone! Oracle was going to replace DB2 said numerous “experts”. IBM fanboy
Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone On Tuesday, March 16, 2021, 3:45 PM, Brian Chapman <[email protected]> wrote: In my opinion, it's a shame that it is this difficult to find a free academic platform for individuals like the one you described. Master the Mainframe is a great place to start, but it does not go deep enough. There's a reason why preteens are writing python, javascript, ruby, etc. IBM needs to change their perspective and culture to encourage young individuals to the mainframe. Thank you, Brian Chapman On Tue, Mar 16, 2021 at 12:55 PM Support, DUNNIT SYSTEMS LTD. < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I was approached by a university student who wants self study z/OS > architecture and Assembler - including 64 bit programming - as an > extra-ciricular activity. The guy is on a shoestring budget. Is there > anything out there for such an aspiring mainframer? Thanks. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
