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Skills shortage
Posted: Wed May 01, 2019 9:01 pm
by Robert Sample
From
IBM Systems Magazine:
Crossing the IBM Z Skills Gap
The IBM Z talent pool isn’t being replenished fast enough to sustain current supply, let alone meet future requirements. Adding to the pressure, mainframe use is growing fast, as the platform continues to prove itself uniquely reliable and well suited to modern real-time data management, blockchain and analytics. The Master the Mainframe contest, Legends of Z, IBM’s Talent Match network, Mainframe Playground and other initiatives are already working to close this skills gap, but there’s more that can be done.
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Re: Skills shortage
Posted: Fri May 03, 2019 1:04 pm
by Anuj Dhawan
That's a good read. However, I don't observe that companies are making effort to keep the current work-force motivated enough...
Re: Skills shortage
Posted: Fri May 03, 2019 1:13 pm
by enrico-sorichetti
... making effort to keep the current work-force motivated enough...
they stopped that at least 20 years ago
Re: Skills shortage
Posted: Sat May 04, 2019 9:13 am
by Anuj Dhawan
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Re: Skills shortage
Posted: Wed May 08, 2019 3:16 am
by vasanthz
At least IBM should make Mainframe programming accessible to more people and not pay-wall it.
If someone wants to learn Amazon Web services, all they have to do is signup for a free-tier and play with all services they got. No hassle.
Even SAS offers a university edition for people to break into.
Only hope is zCloud has some free-tier ish Mainframe access for a year.