Knowledge Transfer has been actively collaborating with various stakeholders to address one of the mainframe's biggest challenges: the impending retirement of experienced mainframers and the need to replenish the workforce with programmers, developers, and administrators.
Despite the prevalence of newer technologies, mainframes continue to serve as the core systems for ninety-two global banks, leading insurers, and most top retailers. The staggering amount of COBOL code in production, exceeding two hundred billion lines, further highlights the need to address the aging workforce and hire new talent.
To tackle this crisis, Knowledge Transfer is spearheading a unique consortium that includes like-minded instructors, professors, influencers, and corporations. Their collective mission is to change the narrative surrounding the mainframe ecosystem, raise awareness about its importance, and highlight the plat form that drives global commerce.
There are currently no public events available for this course. However, you can submit a request for a new date and we will try our best to get you into a The Mainframe Learning Consortium - Core Programming Foundations class.
The technology you will learn about over these 12 weeks runs the global economy. If you live in the modern world, you use a mainframe several times a day.
You will have access to the top Mainframe instructors with over 30 years of hands-on experience. Our trainers are IBM Champions and professors with the top mainframe college programs.
The Mainframe Learning Consortium - Core Programming Foundations
We believe that providing a comprehensive foundation and ample time for students to acclimate to the mainframe environment is crucial for their success in the industry. Our program has been tailored to address the specific needs of beginner students, enabling them to gain essential skills and knowledge required to thrive in the IT field. We have received positive feedback from companies who have seen firsthand the value that graduates of this program bring to their organizations.
It is important to note that although DB2 and CICS are not explicitly covered in our core curriculum, we passionately believe that the skills and knowledge gained through our program serve as a solid foundation for individuals to easily adapt and learn these additional topics. By focusing on core concepts, such as file handling and data manipulation, students develop a strong understanding of data management principles that can be easily transferred to working with databases.
CORE TOPICS:
Intro to z/OS: zSystems data servers can process up to 1 trillion web transactions per day with high levels of security and reliability.
You will learn the basic concepts behind the z/OS environment and set the stage for more detailed training on individual topics and skills.
TSO/ISPF for z/OS : Learning to use TSO/ISPF is a fundamental skill required for anyone working in the mainframe environment. TSO/ISPF provides an online environment for access to editing facilities and utilities. This course will teach you how to use the z/OS online tools to access services, edit data and manage data sets/files. The course is structured entirely around challenging project work, in which you will use TSO/ISPF to solve real-world problems.
File Manager: File Manager provides production and development logical file manipulation for Websphere MQ queue data, z/OS®Unix files, CICS® files, TS and TD queues, and QSAM and VSAM data sets. VSAM data sets include ESDS, KSDS, RRDS, and VRRDS. File Manager provides applications programmers and systems programmers with the capability to access, view, edit, find, modify, copy, maintain, repair, migrate, print, and manage data and files. The Template Workbench allows users (particularly applications programmers) to format data stored in any of the above files based upon the definitions in COBOL, PL/I, or High Level Assembler copybooks, or to define data formats dynamically. Adding to this capability is an interactive interface that allows programmers to view data in both table and single-record formats
JCL: JCL is used to run every unit of work in the system whether it be a batch job, started task or TSO user. This course will build your skills by teaching you how to use JCL to set up your job streams, create JCL procedures for common tasks and correct JCL errors.
Utilities : Utility programs are tools that are available to help make routine tasks easier to do. Using these programs avoids the need to write specific programs to do routine tasks, and provides access to system facilities that might be too complex for routine programming. This course will build your skills by teaching you how to use utilities as a standardized means of performing general functions and theability to secure selected programs’ access.
CORE Part 2: COBOL has become one of the most important programming languages on the modern mainframe with an estimated 220 billion lines of code in active use today. This course will cover I/O processing, conditional testing, arithmetic operations, table handling, subprogram concepts and linkage conventions. The course will cover structured programming using the new COBOL for MVS constructs for Do groups (inline performs), Dowhile, Dountil, Selection (IF THEN ELSE) and Case (evaluate). This course is current to the latest release of COBOL for MVS/VM but can be taught for any predecessors.
We add the following electives based on specific requirements:
There are currently no public events available for this course. However, you can submit a request for a new date and we will try our best to get you into a The Mainframe Learning Consortium - Core Programming Foundations class.
Be willing to put the work in and show up every day ready to learn!
There are currently no public events available for this course. However, you can submit a request for a new date and we will try our best to get you into a The Mainframe Learning Consortium - Core Programming Foundations class.
Course Comments
92 of the top 100 global banks still rely on mainframes as their core system. The world's top 10 insurers and over two-thirds of the top 25 retailers also depend on these legacy systems. In fact, more than 200 billion lines of COBOL code remain in production, with that number growing each year. It is time to address the elephant in the room by acknowledging we have an aging workforce in the mainframe ecosystem and companies need to start addressing this crisis by hiring new talent.
Want to learn more? We can connect you directly with past students and let them tell you how they started their journey with zero Mainframe programming experience but left with the skill sets of a Junior Mainframe Programmer!
Ask about our Apprenticeship and Internship programs with The Mainframe Learning Consortium!
No Upcoming Public Classes
There are currently no public events available for this course. However, you can submit a request for a new date and we will try our best to get you into a The Mainframe Learning Consortium - Core Programming Foundations class.