I tend to agree with 99% of what Mr. Boyes said. However, the educational responsibility needs to be placed more upon academia. For them to teach UNIX / Linux is a given ability. The lack of educators with mainframe skills and knowledge along with their respective teaching tools limit in today’s schools. Phil Parmelee
David Boyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: The IBM z/VM Operating System <[email protected]> 10/07/2008 01:22 PM Please respond to The IBM z/VM Operating System <[email protected]> To [email protected] cc Subject Re: Mainframe education/training > What's the good and bad news about today's mainframe education? I think the good parts are that there is more of it occurring. The negative side is that there continues to be a great deal of confusion (most of it generated by IBM) that mainframe = z/OS. Much, if not all, of the "advances" in training have covered exclusively z/OS education, not System z education. That may change soon, but I can't say the state of real System z education has improved much at all. > What's missing? z/VM education Linux on z TPF VSE Large systems engineering Batch processing education (this seems to have completely disappeared) > What works? Classroom instruction? Online training? Self-study courses? > Books? User groups? Combinations of the above. Online only is of limited value, especially if you don't have a lab system you can break. > Do employers pay for it? Is it a necessity or a golden perk? Is it safe > in the budget or a first thing to get whacked? If what I needed existed, I'd pay for it. User groups are generally as effective, especially if well-organized. > What's happening in local mainframe user groups? Well, Hillgang does pretty well.
