Technical skills apart from Mainframe
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Technical skills apart from Mainframe
Hi all,
I am just curious to know how of us here are interested to learn or learning technical skills which is apart from Mainframe (Ofcourse Mainframe is very vast).
If in case you are learning something different or wanted to learn something apart from Mainframe please feel free to share
Here goes my interest
I am currently putting my mind into these things
JAVA , HTML,Javascript,css & Mobile development and few more
So feel free to respond until it sticks to the subject
I am just curious to know how of us here are interested to learn or learning technical skills which is apart from Mainframe (Ofcourse Mainframe is very vast).
If in case you are learning something different or wanted to learn something apart from Mainframe please feel free to share
Here goes my interest
I am currently putting my mind into these things
JAVA , HTML,Javascript,css & Mobile development and few more
So feel free to respond until it sticks to the subject
zprogrammer
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Re: Technical skills apart from Mainframe
I learned HTML to put up a mainframe intranet site. It used Unix System Services and wound up being very useful to the application programmers as I had the FTP return codes and links to COBOL file status codes, VSAM return codes, and other manuals. I also learned Perl to be able to write Windows / Unix programs to replace mainframe tools. One of these days I want to pick up CSS and Java (but no rush I figure).
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Re: Technical skills apart from Mainframe
I have started getting knowledge on Big Data, Hadoop and core java concepts.
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Re: Technical skills apart from Mainframe
I learned HTML, DHTML, C, MATLAB, JAVA, PHP, phpBB, VBScript though I hardly use them every day apart from phpBB.
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Anuj
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Re: Technical skills apart from Mainframe
Do we need to learn more languages while being a mainframe programmer? Is not COBOL all that we need?
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Re: Technical skills apart from Mainframe
That depends upon you and the company you work for. Many companies value employees who go beyond the minimum (such as learning a different computer language) more than employees who just do the minimum. So if you want to increase your value to your company, you should find out what skills management thinks are important, and learn one (or more) of them. If you think you have enough value to your company, just stick with COBOL.Do we need to learn more languages while being a mainframe programmer? Is not COBOL all that we need?
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