IBM z/OS Mainframe Practitioner

Found some courses on mainframe to share.

Was browsing coursera and found this course offered . How cool :) ...thought i'll share here.

https://www.coursera.org/professional-certificates/ibm-z-mainframe

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Found another one in pluralsight as well .

https://app.pluralsight.com/library/courses/z-os-mainframe-introduction/table-of-contents

Sure! https://www.coursera.org/professional-certificates/ibm-z-mainframe

It's the best online training I've found and includes remote access to an ISPF interface.

> I'm not sure really how to phrase this but, my question is, is the industry hurting enough to take an "off the street" IT guy and train them?

No, I don't think they would be super-excited about a zero-experience applicant.

But in your case it sounds like you have a fair sum of more traditional systems administration experience.

There are actually quite a few free(ish) educational resources out there in the wild to help you not be a zero-experience applicant.

https://www.ibm.com/it-infrastructure/z/education

https://www.ibm.com/training/mainframe/

https://www.ibm.com/blogs/ibm-training/free-course-announcing-learning-cobol-programming-with-vscode/

https://www.coursera.org/professional-certificates/ibm-z-mainframe

https://www.mainframes.com/Training.html