Get Database Skills for Career ROI

Posted by Mike on Tuesday, November 9, 2010

The IBM i job market is meat grinder these days for IT workers. The lucky ones are fighting to hang on to the jobs they have, while the unlucky are struggling to put their IT talents to work again. On either side of that great divide, there are people benefiting from having better tools in their toolboxes than the person next to them. I’m talking about specialized skills and, in particular, I’m talking about database skills where there is short supply and a growing demand.

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Roles and responsibilities change depending on the company and the size of the staff, Cain says, but education and training of existing staff will be necessary. This is how he sees it from the IBM i perspective. And traditional RPG and COBOL application developers need to embrace SQL as the language to access the database, among other new skills that will have to be acquired.

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