I'm happy you're hiring new grads to work on host systems. The knowledge we (university students) have isn't useless, it just has to be adapted to mainframes. Since universities have long since left that teaching arena, you have two choices left: learn on the job or go through a technical course on mainframe. I find that learning on the job is far more effective.
________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Ray Mullins Sent: Fri 7/28/2006 12:01 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: IBM Redbook: "Introduction to the New Mainframe: z/OS Basics" During the zNextGen monthly call yesterday, someone mentioned that the number of z/OS sysprog jobs on Dice has grown a lot in the past few months. Ray -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bob Shannon Sent: Friday July 28 2006 06:45 To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: IBM Redbook: "Introduction to the New Mainframe: z/OS Basics" > I do know that we now have a mainframe customer list which is 10% the size > it was 10-15 years ago. This is not a discussion about the future of the mainframe, whether the mainframe is a viable platform, or whether there are more windoze licenses than z/OS licenses. It started with this quote "There's a great deal of attention now paid to helping new mainframe". IMO, anyone who disputes this hasn't been paying attention. Just for the record, we just hired a 23 year old sysprog right out of college who doesn't know anything about a mainframe - yet. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
