Should you enter the Mainframe world in 2023?

Regarding being a front-end web developer : z/OS comes with a powerful Apache-based web server and can run most web technologies. z/OS also natively supports Docker containers.

thanks for your sharing. I am 23 and already have got my first job on mainframe. dunno what to expect, but you give me some wonder.

Hot air and nonsense!!!! At any shop YOU GET 2 WEEKS TO BECOME PRODUCTIVE AND
START TURNING OUT PROGRAMS OR WEB PAGES!!! NO ONE IS GOING TO "MENTOR"
YOU!!!(IF YOUR LUCKY YOU'LL GET A 2 TO 5 DAY TRAINING COURSE).
IN MY CONSULTING BUSINESS, I HAVE NOT HAD A MAINFRAME CUSTOMER IN 20 YEARS!!!
ALL MY CUSTOMERS ARE MICROSOFT OR LINUX.

FYI: HERE IS WHAT IS IN DEMAND: Microsoft windows server, Red hat linux, sql, c++, c#
python, word press, html, microsoft visual studio, jason, java script, apache server.
NOT: IBM ZOS.(DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME ON IBM SOFTWARE)
This video is none sense!!

IBM IS NOW RED HAT LINUX COMPANY: THAT SAYS IT ALL!!!!!

Agree 100% about the non-mainframe world of Change Management, Asset Management, Configuation Management and documentation being less than it should be, that is always the case and always the case that it makes everyone's life a lot harder, and those deficiences never get fixed once the service is in BAU.

Boy would I have loved it down the years if things had been done well and done properly.

If you think a front-end developer changes colors and flashing lights.... I feel sorry for you, what else can I say....

Mainframe, sideframe who cares make money

"Leak Code?"

Great video really i have been in the mainframe work for 6 months, must say you really a correct about a lot of it! But you make it sound easy to learn everything about 3270 😅

There are more bodies to throw at the resource problem when they go offshore. The quality isn't there and if they do show promise they move on to bigger and better things.

Getting specialised personnel is very hard these days.

It may sound weird, but I'm wanting to learn COBOL just so I can land one of these niche programming jobs. They all seem secure and pay well. Someone has to work these jobs and I'm trying to segue into tech from a non-IT STEM field. Thoughts on this?

Im 40 and got my Programming degree in 2006. I am about to switch to the mainframe world, COBOL etc.

Well, it's rather refreshing to hear about a positive mainframe experience especially from someone who is relatively young.

Hi Connor, thank you for sharing your insights, may you please advise which article or paper were referring to written by Craig Mullins?

I just started a job today on a team managing an IBM Mainframe. This is my first IT job and I feel like this will be great for gaining experience and skills.

Hey, Connor!
Saluts from Brazil!
Just like you, I'm a young guy in the t-rex world. (23 y)
I started working with Mainframe last year, I'm a trainee for a company hired by a big bank of Brazil. Has being a hard journey, but I'm enjoying veryyy much. It's amazing to find modules older than me lfmao
Let me ask you, my big goal is to move to another country working as a mainframe developer, can you tell me how is the market?
For example, my job is fully remote, how about yours? Is this common in the US Mainframe area?

How should someone with just a Bachelor's on computer science should start?

You've inspired me. Been a Jr. Endevor Admin for about 6mos now and have been regretting it. I jumped ship from break/fix, desktop support.

I got the position for the not-so right reasons, but I love operations and working behind the scenes.

I find IBM hard to comprehend but this video is kickstarting fire I need.

I've never really seen a big company on my resume help me. In fact, a lot of medium and small businesses will assume you're used to only working on a narrow piece of large team projects or assume you're used to heavy waterfall type processes.

In the US they'll also offshore anything in a heartbeat if they bring in C suite folks that don't understand IT and actually believe it will save money long term.

Heys, I wonder;
Where to learn Mainframe? I mean, I know some COBOL at this point, but COBOL is just a tiny bit of the whole picture, and I'd like to learn more.

Hi i am from India. I got a job offer in a support role in mainframe technologies should i accept the offer. ?

thank you for sharing

...been doing mainframe work for going on 53 years. Yes, job security!! I am frequently asked to provide input and/or support to projects within my organization, often from people who just learned about my background and have contacted me for my experience and knowledge.

I’m 37 switching to this. I start in 2 weeks. They are paying to teach me how to be a mainframe systems engineer.

Side note i am a Product Owner so i have somewhat of a technical background and i was a front end devout earlier in my career.

No.

You're welcome,I just saved you 8 minutes.

It will be very useful if you upload mainframe teaching videos .a

I'm also retired from at&t as a computer technician. Worked on one mainframe, alot of minicomputer systems, with Unix, vax/vms, hp9000, 3b2, 3b20s systems. I love command line verses gui's. In fact, I've never really adjusted to gui's like windows. I did like Unix "layers" back in the 80's. Is COBOL still used on the mainframes? Thinking seriously about part time work on these systems if they'll have me at the age of 71. Anyways any suggestions? Thank you for this video.

I would need advice regarding career. I hope you could help me.

So funny, when I started out in the mid nineties, everybody told me "avoid the mainframe scene at all costs, it's an obsolete approach and will soon be ending, no point in learning Cobol" Thirty years later, mainframes and Cobol still runs the important parts of the world...

What’s your age ?

When do you think mainframe will become obsolete due to ai or companies diving out work to country’s that pay less, like India, do you think Americans are to expansive for companies, do you it’s a logical reason to worry that outsourcing will becoming a bigger issue

Your job will end up in a third world country. Become a plumber or an electrician instead. From a retired mainframer who spent 43 years in the profession.

FYI - I am a 40+ year MAINFRAME guy!

It has been a very lucrative career - Most of the time, those NOT in the know, predicted the demise of the MAINFRAME!

Sure glad they did, because my salary has been much higher than the average distributed x86 commodity techs.

By far, get on the MAINFRAME - fortune/global 500s run on MAINFRAMES - PERIOD - that is the TRUTH, gen z'ers!!

Go zDb2 systems guys - WE ROCK THE INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX "DB" WORLD, BABY!!

;-]

I have just jumped back into mainframe. The other benefits with large companies is you do get exposure to current tech. JAVA, SQL, Python etc. as there is alway integration to non mainframe business processes.

Hey Connor, greetings from Colombia. I'm also a System Programmer in here. how about a video comparation of zowe on vscode and IDZ.

Good review of the field. Nice shirt also. - Like the phrases - "This is not that!" - "ISPF is a souped-up command line" - "I think you should lean into it..."

Great video. Is this role for young people only or it's never late? i mean, is it so hard to begin from zero knowledge?

Hello Connor, I am the Managing Editor of Planet Mainframe. We featured this video, is there a way to reach you? Thanks!

Hi Connor, I was wondering if you could do a video on the day in a life of a mainframe programmer/systems administrator. Do the programmers work closely with the administrators? Great video! :)

The big portions of the mainframe (and there are many!), are Automation, Application development and Scheduler package usage and function. Security, CICS, and DB2 as well. zCloud services... All of these can interface with Java, Uss commands and code, etc. But, learning Rexx and JCL is a huge plus. Also an understanding of migrating mainframe applications and associated elements between competitors products is huge right now.

I recommend it! Anything learned on the mainframe applies to so many aspects of other technologies as well. A marvelous system!

Thanks Conner. I'm an old guy and getting back into the mainframe world to finish my career. (I only have a 5 year horizon.) Anyway I purchased the IBM ZD&T product to get my feet wet. I see myself only doing Cobol and DB2.

Very insightful. As a relatively new person with just over couple of years experience as Operator . This seems promising.