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Coming to a college near you
z9 and zSeries operating systems curriculum
Are you interested in finding out how the
IBM Academic Initiative could influence
the system programmers your company
hires? Here is a sampling of the courses
that participating colleges and universities
are offering your potential new hires:
56 February 2006 z/OS HOT TOPICS Newsletter, Issue 14
If you are an IBM Academic Initiative
member, you can find course materials by
looking for “Curriculum & courseware” in
the navigation pane of the IBM Academic
Initiative Web site: www.developer.
ibm.com/university/scholars/.
z9 and zSeries operating systems curriculum
z/OS and zSeries introduction
An Introduction to the Mainframe: z/OS Basics
An Introduction to IMS
Introduction to z/VM
Linux on zSeries
z/OS UNIX System Services
z/OS basic skills
ISPF: z/OS Basic Interfaces
Enterprise Server Introduction to Programming z/OS
JCL
Enterprise Server Assembler Language Coding
Enterprise Server Storage Management VSAM
z/OS middleware
Enterprise Server Data Management
Enterprise Server Transaction Management
e-business with z/OS
e-business with WebSphere Application Server
for z/OS
e-business with Java
If you represent a college or university and
are not yet a member, no problem! It’s easy
to become one. Select “Apply Now” on the
top right-hand corner of the same Web
page to receive your free membership.
Currently, there are over 200 colleges
and universities actively teaching or
considering offering zSeries classes. You
can find some of these schools by checking
out the following Web site: www.developer.
ibm.com/us/en/university/scholars/
products/zseries/.
Honorable Mention:
There was an old hacker from Lisbon
Who sighed as he logged on the system
“These mainframes,” said he
“are the best there can be,
it’s a damn shame those young kids have missed ‘em!”
Eric Entzel, North Dakota State University
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