On 2017-12-03 10:33 PM, R360 Design INC via talk wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> Does anyone know how I could gain hands-on experience on an IBM mainframe?
> This is a career path Id like to pursue - i.e. Websphere zOS consultant or
> CICS. I am currently a UoT student and was wondering how people
When I was at American Airlines/Sabre, a goodly set of their crucial
systems were running on TSO, on zSeries hardware (which tended to have
other names at that time; 3090s and S/390s, I think; it was never
clear to me what specific hardware I was ever connected to).
There'd be a goodly mixture of
On 12/04/2017 05:35 PM, Steve Petrie, P.Eng. via talk wrote:
> The old guard like me are all retired / ing in droves, and not enough
> new COBOL progammers are being produced by colleges and universities.
http://millennialmainframer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/dilbertcobol1.jpg
;-)
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Talk
Greetings To R360,
>From someone who worked as independent contract software engineer for 30
>years, retiring early in the year 2002.
At that time major financial companies used large IBM mainframes extensively.
They simply wouldn't trust anything else.
The COBOL language often so disparaged
On Sun, Dec 03, 2017 at 10:33:20PM -0500, R360 Design INC via talk wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> Does anyone know how I could gain hands-on experience on an IBM mainframe?
> This is a career path Id like to pursue - i.e. Websphere zOS consultant or
> CICS. I am currently a UoT student and was
On Sun, Dec 03, 2017 at 11:00:03PM -0500, James Knott via talk wrote:
> Well, IBM systems run SUSE, if I'm not mistaken. You could start there
> for the software side. IIRC, IBM mainframes these days are simply
> massively multi-CPU., running Linux. I have a cousin, a nuclear
> physicist, who
Hello,
You can join IBM partner world and get access to VMs running IBMs operating
system for free.
I used it a few years ago to test AIX and Active Directory integration
https://www-356.ibm.com/partnerworld/wps/pub/systems/technical/hardware/linuxdrive
On Mon, Dec 4, 2017 at 12:44 AM David
