Re:IBM z14 Microprocessor and System Control Design
by wilsonnb3 on Tuesday November 20, 2018 @09:08PM
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I was hired as a junior software engineer for a mainframe company, and it is indeed very hard. zOS was radically different from anything I had done before and it took a long while before i felt comfortable with it.
IBM actually holds a very good week long training you can send junior developers to. It’s basically a boot camp. There were about 10 other developers at it when I went, most of whom were fresh college grads from the big mainframe software companies (BMC, CA, Rocket, etc.).
I’ve since moved on to the world of .net and I don’t miss the mainframe stuff at all.
Edit: I’ll add that a lot of what made it difficult for me was that I was working with assembly language and our product required a lot of knowledge about the OS. Many mainframe programmers are using java and eclipse, which isn’t that different from using java and eclipse to target any other system.
IBM actually holds a very good week long training you can send junior developers to. It’s basically a boot camp. There were about 10 other developers at it when I went, most of whom were fresh college grads from the big mainframe software companies (BMC, CA, Rocket, etc.).
I’ve since moved on to the world of .net and I don’t miss the mainframe stuff at all.
Edit: I’ll add that a lot of what made it difficult for me was that I was working with assembly language and our product required a lot of knowledge about the OS. Many mainframe programmers are using java and eclipse, which isn’t that different from using java and eclipse to target any other system.