Re: Possibly stupid question for you IBM mainframers... :-)

From: William M. Klein (wmklein_at_nospam.netcom.com)
Date: 07/13/04

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    What part of the country are you in? There are actually some (not many)
    Community Colleges still providing IBM-centric "JCL, CICS, Utilities, whatever)
    courses. I know that near me, Northern Illinois University has fairly extensive
    courses.

    If you give me a "general" location, I may be able to find the name of someplace
    where you could get some training *and* some "on machine" time.

    If you want to check on your own, check out the "IBM Scholars Program"
    information starting at:

       http://www-306.ibm.com/software/info/university/featured_members.html 

    -- 
Bill Klein
 wmklein <at> ix.netcom.com
"Richard Steiner" <rsteiner@visi.com> wrote in message
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> Hi, guys...
>
> I've been out of work for a while, and while I know COBOL well enough
> on both the Unisys 2200 and A-series platforms (I've written code in
> both of those environments now), most of the mainframe work I see out
> there is in IBMland.
>
> No, this isn't a surprise to me.  :-)
>
> My question, though: How does a person like me go about learning more
> about CICS, COBOL2, DB2, etc., on the IBM side...?
>
> I already know how to operate in environments like TSO/ISPF (having
> used various tools in that environment for over a decade at a former
> workplace), and I have a couple of Doug Lowe's books on CICS "for the
> COBOL programmer" which seem quite interesting at first glance, but
> I've been too busy reading up on Javascript and other seemingly more
> marketable things to spend too much time reading things IBMish.
>
> So many books, so little time.  :-(
>
> How does one learn about the IBM world nowadays?  Or is that something
> which is no longer a realistic desire?
>
> Am I crazy for even being interested?
>
> Is there a better newsgroup to ask this?  Maybe I'll also fork this to
> a.f.c (since I know a lot of former IBMers post there as well).
>
> -- 
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