Mainframe infrstructure learnings.

[Mukesh Mistry]

Hi,

Could someone please advise that how can one move in to the infrastructure side of the mainframes? I had worked as Programmer, Project Lead. manager and Architect. However, all of them are on Application side of it. If I want to move in to the infrastructure side of mainframes, where should I get stared. Are there some certificate which can help me in this direction?

By infrastructure, I meant the activities like - making strategies for Disaster recovery, creating LPARs, CICS regions, connecting interfaces etc...

Thanks for the guidance on this.

[nicc]

Make friends with people in those groups and learn from chatting with them. Read overviews, manuals. When a vacancy comes up - apply. You don't need a certificate - you should be given training by your employers. They know that you are transferring without the fully-fledged skills but the fact that you can hold some sort of reasonable conversation on the job will be in your favour.

[Robert Sample]

There is a set of 13 IBM Redbooks called ABCs of IBM z/OS System Programming. If you start reading these Redbooks, it will show that you have the ability to start learning on your own and should help you with the transition. I don't know of any certification programs for system programming (although there probably is at least one), and few -- if any -- of the system programmers I know would be comfortable with someone who comes in with just the certification. Certification is book learning and a lot of system programming is real-time application of knowledge (such as: you apply maintenance to your target system -- hopefully your sandbox system -- and when you IPL you get a wait state code because SYS1.NUCLEUS has gone into a second extent so you need to know what to do in order to get that IPL started).

[KHKOCH]

There is an organisation caled European Mainframe Academy (EMA) which teaches future system engineers. Maybe you can asked in your company to get the education payed.

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