Posted by Mike on Tuesday, February 9, 2010 - 314 views
The scuttlebutt on the job market related to mainframe now comes across to me as this:
Ten years ago, if you have worked mainly as a mainframe programmer, particularly in the old-fashioned world of nightly cycles, JCL, on-call support, COBOL, CICS, S0C7’s, AbendAid, etc (don’t we remember this), it was more prudent to grow your background in the mainframe area where you had focused expertise, than to move into client-server, where it’s hard to pick things up in non-linear learning curve mode. Why?
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Posted by Mike on Tuesday, January 12, 2010 - 270 views
The ideal candidate will have IBM COBOL, JCL, TSO/ISPF, CICS and production support experience. Lean and IDEAL experience is preferred. …
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Posted by Mike on Wednesday, September 30, 2009 - 319 views
I’ve been off work for nearly five months, and used PL/1 for the last three years prior to that, so my COBOL skills were just a little bit rusty.
I’ve got a technical interview with an employer today, and I found some online resources that might be of use to some of you when you have tech interviews.
These are probably not all-inclusive, but might help you out when you need it.
These links are courtesy of the COBOL User Groups.
