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Programming Languages

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State of the Market
Software companies are developing products which build upon the longstanding investment that their clients have made in legacy mainframe programming languages and system software. Mainstream strategies have been adopted for upgrading programming languages, primarily to Enterprise COBOL, with new development in open source Java. As organizational enterprise, moves to implement SOA - Service Oriented Architecture, IBM's next generation of system software is being used for web enabling data: WebSphere MQ middleware, WebSphere family of software, Rational, and DB2. Some client organizations have made the decision to use CICS Transaction Server and to a lesser degree the IMS hierarchical database with PL/1, Assembler Language, REXX, and FORTRAN. However, unlike the 1970's and early 1980's, neither the hardware or software is exclusively IBM.  Proprietary software by major players such as Oracle, Microsoft, Peoplesoft, SAP and the increasingly widespread utilization of open source software also has to be accounted for in the emerging cloud computing equation. There is no single best strategy which can be uniformly applied to an organizational enterprise. In most situations, application development will be specific to the organization and integrated in the operations of the enterprise.

Why SYS-ED for Programming Languages Training
When it comes to programming skills (JCL, ISPF, CMS) and legacy programming languages (COBOL, Assembler Language, PL/1, FORTRAN, and REXX), evolutionary systems software (VSAM, CICS, and IMS, DB2, IDMS, and ADABAS) and new technologies integrated with IBM mainframe systems (WebSphere MQ), SYS-ED’s credentials in terms of consultancy experience and advanced degrees in many situations will be superior to that of the employees from the source software companies. Since 1980, SYS-ED's staff has been providing consultancy services and training services to and for major software houses, consulting firms, Fortune 1000 companies, government municipalities, and healthcare providers. Few software or consulting organizations have the skilled personnel or have been doing mainframe training longer or better than SYS-ED.

Legacy Programming Languages

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Educational Consultancy and Value Added Service
Our first generation and longstanding consultancy experience provides us with the privileged perspective from which to recognize and differentiate between industry standard content and educational consulting. We review coding standards and then have the client select the examples and sample programs for the hands-on exercises. It is our standard policy to examine client documentation and tailored create skeleton programs. At the client discretion, assessment validation can be provided. Equally as important, SYS-ED is independent from the software companies. We review software company manuals, red books, proprietary information in the public domain, and open source documentation. SYS-ED analyzes benchmarks for software updates and new products. Vendor documentation and third party content is interpreted and selectively incorporated into our courseware and training aids.
 


Knowledge Base
SYS-ED clients are welcome to submit programming languages questions. Our system consultants and technology partners answer, explain, and where applicable reference source documentation. Questions are reviewed and answered on a first-come/first serve-basis. This service is available through our categorized and software specific mainframe websites.

Mainframe Courseware
An important component in the successful delivery of mainframe legacy programming languages training was the development of mainframe courseware: student hand-outs, sample programs, skeleton programs, workshops, and training aids. SYS-ED courseware incorporates industry standard content and consultancy derived techniques for coding and debugging applications written in legacy programming languages inclusive of performance design and optimization with IBM system software. The collective efforts of our subject matter experts are managed by editors, who have multidisciplinary expertise in information technology, text book authoring, and degrees in management and business administration. The classic principles of adult learning are applied to the content, interpreting and translating subject matter into performance objectives, narrative descriptions, and diagrams which explain the design, program logic and underlying architecture of the evolution of the legacy programming language. The courseware has been designed to utilize a variety of presentation formats: textual, tabular, diagrammatic, bullet point, and code snippets.

Our courseware library has been incrementally augmented, revised, and maintained. It is highly valued, especially with legacy mainframe programming languages, where there is a scarcity of up to date text books. For organization’s who have a requirement for their own employees to teach mainframe subject matter or the need to have content available for presentation through a web-based learning medium, we will tailor and license our courseware. It is standard policy for SYS-ED to provide courseware which will extend an instructor-led course into a distance-learning format. Likewise, courseware can be migrated for utilization by the client into an authoring system for content delivery via the Internet.

Key Personnel

Jonathan Clarke David Shapiro David Silverberg

Mainframe Training: History of Excellence

Industry Organization
Airlines Official Airline Guides
Automobiles Reedman Corporations
Computer Industry CGA Computer Associates
Computer Consoles Incorporated
IBM
Neshaminy Valley Information Processing
Persetel
Distribution Bowman Barnes Distribution Group
Finance/Banking American Express – Centurion Bank
The Exchange National Bank of Chicago
Pittsburgh National Bank
Food Processing Schreiber Foods, Inc.
Government Municipality Steuben County Data Processing
Healthcare Alverno Administrative Services
Blue Cross Blue Shield Northern West Virginia
Combined Insurance Company of America
Insurance Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Company
Retail Emporium Capwell
Kmart
Safeway Stores
Shipbuilding Newport News Shipbuilding
Newport News Shipbuilding
Telecommunications Dictaphone/Pitney Bowes
MCI Worldcom
Utilities Houston Lighting & Power Company
Wines and SpiritsSC Data Center

Consultancy and Mainframe Training:
IBM Legacy Systems Software in the 1980's

Mainframe: Assembler Language Programming   Mainframe: CICS
Mainframe: COBOL   Mainframe: DB2
Mainframe: DOS/VSE   Mainframe: EDF
Mainframe: IMS   Mainframe: JCL
Mainframe: MVS   Mainframe: SNA
Mainframe: Structured Analysis   Mainframe: TP Fundamentals
Mainframe: TSO/ISPF   Mainframe: VM/CMS
Mainframe: VSAM   Mainframe: VTAM
Mainframe: Assembler Language Programming Training  
Dun and Bradstreet  Pittsburgh National Bank
Mainframe: CICS Training  
4100 User Group  4300 User Group/Ryder
Alco Standard Corporation  Allegheny Power
Almsa  Alverno Administrative Services
Amdahl  American United Life Insurance
Amtrak  Bank of America
Bank One  Bank One and Mid Ohio Trainers Consortium
Blue Cross, Maine  Blue Cross, West Viriginia
Brooks Fashion  BRS
Carpenter's Fund  CCH Computax
CGA Baltimore  Chicago Sun Times
Ciba-Geigy Inc.  City of New York
Combined Insurance  ComputerAID
Cooperative Computer Center  Department of Energy
Disc  Doubleday
DPMA - Data Processing Management Association  Dun and Bradstreet
Economy Fire and Casualty  Ed Phillips and Sons
Ernst and Whinney  First National State Bank
G.C. Murphy Company  Geisenger
General Foods  Global Software
Harper and Row  Haworth
Houston Lighting and Power  Indianapolis Training Consortium
International Paper  JC Penny
Liberty Life Insurance  Life Technologies
Manufacturers Hanover Trust  MCI
McKesson Corporation  Mid Ohio Training Consortium
Midlantic  Midwestern State University
Morton Thiokol  Nestle
New Castle County Data Center  New York Times
Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Company  Pan Am
Persetel  Pittsburgh National Bank
Presidio  Price Waterhouse
Princess Tours  S.C. Data Center
Safeway Stores  Sandia National Laboratories
Savin Corporation  SMUD - Sacremento Utility District
Southern California Rapid Transit/ Peat Marwick  SSA
State Mutual Life  State of Alaska
State of Indiana  SYS-ED/Norway
United Engineers  Universal Computing Center
US Army Darcom  USDA
Vigortone Ag Products  WATs - Worcester Area Trainers
Mainframe: COBOL Training  
Bank One  Blue Cross, West Viriginia
Citibank  Detroit Medical Center
Guardian Life  Indianapolis Training Consortium
Manufacturers Hanover Trust  Mass OMIB
MCI  Pacific Bell
Pittsburgh National Bank  Quantico - Marines
State of California  Sterling Drug
Mainframe: DB2 Training  
BASF  ComputerAID
Haworth  MCI
Memorial Sloan Kettering  RSM - London
SYS-ED/Norway   
Mainframe: DOS/VSE Training  
DPMA - Data Processing Management Association  DuPont
Washington University   
Mainframe: EDF Training  
Pan Am   
Mainframe: IMS Training  
Allegheny Power  American Express
Amtrak  ComputerAID
DPMA - Data Processing Management Association  IMI
MCI  McKesson Corporation
Midlantic  State of Indiana
SYS-ED/Norway  UPS - United Parcel Service
Washington University   
Mainframe: JCL Training  
Ciba-Geigy Inc.  CSA
Guardian Life  Indianapolis Training Consortium
Life Technologies  MCI
Minolta  Ogden Allied
Philip Morris  State of Maine
SYS-ED/Norway  Union Labor Life Insurance
Mainframe: MVS Training  
MCI   
Mainframe: SNA Training  
Indianapolis Training Consortium   
Mainframe: Structured Analysis Training  
Ciba-Geigy Inc.  UPS - United Parcel Service
Mainframe: TP Fundamentals Training  
Midlantic  SYS-ED/Norway
Mainframe: TSO/ISPF Training  
Philip Morris   
Mainframe: VM/CMS Training  
Equitable Life Insurance  Pepsico
Unocal   
Mainframe: VSAM Training  
Alco Standard Corporation  Armco
Bank One  Bendix
Blue Cross, Maine  BRS
Chicago Sun Times  Ciba-Geigy Inc.
ComputerAID  Fidata
Harnischfeger  Home Savings
Houston Lighting and Power  Life Technologies
MCI  Mid Ohio Training Consortium
Midlantic  MIS Training Institute
Newport News  Newport News Shipbuilding
OCLC  Ogden Allied
Pan Am  Procter and Gamble
Quantico - Marines  Rockwell International
Royal Insurance  Ryder Systems
S.C. Data Center  Safeway Stores
SMUD - Sacramento Municipality Utility District  Software Education Corporation
SYS-ED/Norway  Tootsie Rolls
Vigortone Ag Products   
Mainframe: VTAM Training  
City of New York   

Mainframe Technology Exchange Websites

SYS-ED's technology exchange websites compile, organize, and present software specific and established operational categorizations of information technology. They provide a framework for assessing knowledge transfer: web-based training, classroom instruction, courseware, learning paths, and validation assessment.
www.cicstrainingbysysed.us www.coboltrainingbysysed.us
www.db2trainingbysysed.us www.imstrainingbysysed.us
www.mainframetrainingbysysed.us www.programmingbysysed.us
www.mfutilitiesandtoolsbysysed.us www.mqseriestrainingbysysed.us
www.rexxtrainingbysysed.us www.sastrainingbysysed.us
www.unixtrainingbysysed.us www.vsamtrainingbysysed.us

Additional Information

So when it comes to your mainframe training needs, by all means contact IBM and review their course outlines and performance objectives. And then contact SYS-ED: dshapiro@sysed.com or dsilverberg@sysed.com.

SYS-ED mainframe courses are NOT open to the general public. Only employees sponsored by Fortune 1000 corporations, government municipalities, healthcare providers, consulting companies, and mid-sized businesses are allowed to enroll in a SYS-ED course and ONLY after a telephone consultation with our mainframe curriculum manager. This is essential for ensuring that the individual be placed in the course which corresponds to the employer’s operational objectives, operating environment, version of software, and development platform.