Are they teaching this stuff in CS university programs these days?
I'm attempting to gather some unofficial data on the topic of the impending shortage of new employees into the mainframe computing space pipeline, exacerbated ostensibly by a lack of interest or skills from newly minted CS grads. So I'd like to know, when it comes to the following skillsets, were they taught or even offered in your program? Were they on your radar at all?
- assembler language programming (HLASM)
- the z/OS operating system (a/k/a System Z)
- JCL
- ISPF
- TSO
- SMP/E
- RACF
- REXX
- Db2 or IMS
- CICS
- IPLs, hexadecimal arithmetic, dump reading, backup/recovery, parallel sysplex, etc.