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IBM will offer free COBOL training

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Re: IBM will offer free COBOL training

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Post by mikequinlan »

thereyougo wrote: post #2

The article mentions a training class but i don't see any link to it actually. Would love to see this announcement from IBM

https://www.zdnet.com/article/ibm-open-mainframe-project-lau... seems to have more information but the course itself (https://github.com/openmainframeproject/cobol-programming-co...) is just an empty Github repository.

edit to add https://www.openmainframeproject.org/blog/2020/04/09/open-ma... is the actual announcement.

Re: IBM will offer free COBOL training

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Post by Endlessly »

Here is the official description & link to the course:

“Open Source COBOL Training – a brand new open source course designed to teach COBOL to beginners and refresh experienced professionals. IBM worked with clients and an institute of higher education to develop an in-depth COBOL Programming with VSCode course that will be available next week on the public domain at no charge to anyone. This curriculum will be made into a self-service video course with hands-on labs and tutorials available via Coursera and other learning platforms next month. The course will be available on IBM’s own training platform free of charge.”

[1] https://github.com/openmainframeproject

SOURCE: The full IBM press release is here:

[2] https://newsroom.ibm.com/2020-04-09-IBM-and-Open-Mainframe-P...

Re: IBM will offer free COBOL training

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Post by thereyougo »

mikequinlan wrote: post #3
thereyougo wrote: post #2

The article mentions a training class but i don't see any link to it actually. Would love to see this announcement from IBM

https://www.zdnet.com/article/ibm-open-mainframe-project-lau... seems to have more information but the course itself ( https://github.com/openmainframeproject/cobol-programming-co... ) is just an empty Github repository. edit to add https://www.openmainframeproject.org/blog/2020/04/09/open-ma... is the actual announcement.

Thank you for this

Re: IBM will offer free COBOL training

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Post by guu »

There are three main efforts in the official announcement[0]:

- Forum for COBOL programmers to express interest in volunteering or hiring[1]

- Forum monitored by experienced COBOL programmers to help developers[2]

- Open source COBOL training materials from IBM[3] (Available “in the coming days”)

[0]: https://www.openmainframeproject.org/blog/2020/04/09/open-ma...

[1]: https://community.openmainframeproject.org/c/calling-all-cob...

[2]: https://community.openmainframeproject.org/c/cobol-technical...

[3]: https://github.com/openmainframeproject

Re: IBM will offer free COBOL training

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Post by laurentdc »

BoysenberryPi wrote: post #5

This whole recent COBOL surge reminds me of a friend I had who was upset that he had a Bachelor's in Computer Science but still couldn't find a job while his friend with no college degree taught himself COBOL and got a job at a local bank.

Yeah, the devs I met with the most stable and laid back jobs are all AS400, COBOL/CICS or IBM RPG experts
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