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  • Number of Courses9 courses
  • Duration28 hours

This Skill Path is designed to provide a comprehensive introduction to mainframe development, focusing on COBOL programming and related technologies. It covers the fundamental concepts of mainframe systems, essential tools, and programming languages used in enterprise-level computing environments. The path progresses from broad overviews to specific, hands-on programming skills, ensuring a well-rounded understanding of mainframe development.

Courses in this path

Beginner

This section covers the fundamental concepts of mainframe systems, essential tools like JCL and CICS, and programming languages like COBOL used in enterprise-level computing environments.

Mainframe Development: Big Picture

  • by Dave Nicolette
  • 1h 48m Duration
  •  (15)

TSO/ISPF Getting Started

  • by George Rady
  • 1h 57m Duration

COBOL Big Picture

  • by Tom Taulli
  • 1h 10m Duration

CICS Transaction Server: The Big Picture

  • by Dave Nicolette
  • 1h 25m Duration

Relational Databases: The Big Picture

  • by Tom Taulli
  • 1h 56m Duration
  •  (14)

JCL Fundamentals on z/OS

  • by Dave Nicolette
  • 2h 50m Duration

COBOL Fundamentals

  • by Tom Taulli
  • 2h 27m Duration

Murach’s Mainframe COBOL

  • by Tom Taulli
  • 5h 55m Duration

CICS Application Programming Fundamentals (COBOL)

  • by Dave Nicolette
  • 8h 37m Duration

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Dave Nicolette
Dave Nicolette
Dave Nicolette started his career in IT in 1977 as an application programmer. Since then, he has worked on a variety of systems including IBM mainframe and midrange systems, DEC, Tandem, Wang, Honeywell, Unisys and Stratus, and has developed and supported applications in Assembly, Cobol, PL/I, VisualBasic, C/C++, Java, Scala, Kotlin, C#, F#, and others using Unix, Linux, Windows, zOS, NonStop, and other OSes. Currently he works as a technical coach for software development/delivery teams, emphas... more
George Rady
George Rady
George Rady, started taking night school classes and punched out (literally, on punch cards) his first COBOL program into a card reader at Computer Learning Center back in 1983. He has just completed several years with JP Morgan / Chase rolling new code (digitally) into production for the largest Credit Card processing platform in the world. In the intervening years, he has worked for dozens of companies, on hundreds of projects; coding for petabyte IMS and DB2 databases, to coding VSAM applicat... more
Tom Taulli
Tom Taulli
Tom Taulli (@ttaulli) is the author of AI-Assisted Programming: Better Planning, Coding, Testing, and Deployment (https://amzn.to/48qeAa9). He has been programming since he was in high school, when he wrote computer programs for magazines (yes, in the 1980s, there were publications that had code listings!). When he got into college, he started a company that sold Windows software for exam preparation. He then founded other companies like Hypermart.net – which was the mid-1990s version of Shopif... more

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