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Plugging the mainframe skills gap

Mainframe blogger Trevor Eddolls, managing director of iTech-Ed, started working on mainframes in 1979, and now runs the Virtual IMS Connection mainframe user group. He says, "In the 60s, 70s and 80s, the mainframe was the place to be. Previously older people would have been replaced by younger IT staff. But now younger people want the excitement of new technologies like Java and SQL.
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IS YOUR MAINFRAME WORKFORCE READY FOR z/OS V2.1?

IBM says “z/OS Version 2 Release 1, marks a new era of z/OS”, so 2014 is undoubtedly the most important year for mainframe training in over a decade!

“Version 2 sets the groundwork for the next tier of mainframe computing, enabling you to pursue the innovation to drive highly scalable workloads -- including private clouds, support for mobile and social applications, and more. Its unrivaled security infrastructure is designed to help secure vast amounts of data; its highly optimized availability can help you deliver new data analytics solutions, and its continued improvements in management are targeted to help automate the operations of IBM^® zEnterprise^™ systems. With support for and exploitation of the new IBM zEnterprise EC12 (zEC12) and zEnterprise BC12 (zBC12) systems, z/OS V2.1 is designed to offer unmatched availability, scalability, and security to meet the emerging business challenges of cloud, data analytics, and the security demands of mobile and social applications.” - IBM
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Mainframe Brain Drain Raises Serious Concern

As IT pros with deep mainframe know-how approach retirement age, a major skills gap may await enterprise CIOs that still rely on the decades-old technology.

The sharpest young gun in your IT shop might have a precocious set of in-demand skills, from cloud computing to mobile development to Hadoop and other big data platforms. But ask them to find their way around a mainframe, and they'll likely say: "A what?"
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