On 12/03/2017 10:33 PM, R360 Design INC via talk wrote:
Hello everyone,
Does anyone know how I could gain hands-on experience on an IBM mainframe? This is a career path Id like to pursue - i.e. Websphere zOS consultant or CICS. I am currently a UoT student and was wondering how people gain experience
Well, IBM systems run SUSE, if I'm not mistaken. You could start there for the software side. IIRC, IBM mainframes these days are simply massively multi-CPU., running Linux. I have a cousin, a nuclear physicist, who works with the big systems and I get the impression from him that it's largely the same as running a personal computer. I have no idea about Websphere zOS or CICS though. What does UoT have for big iron? I recall when I was at Ryerson, back in the '80s, they had an IBM mainframe.