[oldprogrammer2]

Not the OP, but we have opportunities at our company for people who can operate in both worlds. We run a settlement/clearing system for payment processing, which is a zOS/UniKix/COBOL/JCL kind of system. I've been frustrated with treating the mainframe system as an island that can only be communicated with through batch jobs and batch reporting. So what we've been looking for are developers with a dual skill set to bridge the divide from the mainframe world to the rest of the company's C#/.Net application infrastructure. We have found some guys that have 20+ years experience with COBOL, who then started working on .Net or Java applications in the last decade. It's humbling to me to work with guys who are, in some sense, well into their second career, and are incredibly productive in both worlds. However, we've also had some who just couldn't make the transition out of the mainframe world. But we would also be interested in millennials, or anyone of any age, who could, say, work with JCL and COBOL and also write microservices in C#. Anyone with those skills and in the Dallas area, please reach out to me.

[sien]

What sort of training do you give people to get into the mainframe world?

Where I worked people were always saying how they'd like mainframe people and would train them up but when actually asked about training, well, things became quieter.