1. IBM’s Strategic Program for Filling the Enterprise Skills Pipeline
Christy Schroeder
Worldwide z Skills Client Leader
Misty Decker
Z Systems Academic Initiative

2. z AI - Building z skills at every step in the lifecycle
Higher Education
Technical Schools & Universities
Professional
High School
Computer Science Advanced Placement
Global Training Partners
Filling the talent pipeline through early exposure to Enterprise Computing
Content, Courses, Minors, Majors and Graduate Degree programs
Re-Skill professionals: on-line, accredited Certificate programs, MOOCs, MtM Contest
Deepen Skills with Training Courses
Objective, mission, scope and end of life
Training
Capstone Courses
Research Projects
Co-op Programs
Internships
Rotational Assignments
Exchange Programs
Mentorships
Experience

3. Leverage the AI Program to help fill your z pipeline
Build Relationship
Select an Academic Initiative School, guest lecture, teach, attend career fairs, sponsor technical events
Recruit
Leverage the z Academic Initiative schools, find qualified candidates using the IBM z jobs connetor site and partners like zSkills Corp or MCEC
Train
Visit IBM’s z training site and start your z Learning Journey, earn badges and certifications
Retain
Build an inclusive community for new tenure employees, get active in Gen z communities

4. Build a relationship
Locate an Academic Initiative School using Google Maps or our AI website

5. Recruit winners from our Master the Mainframe Contest
An Enterprise Systems Contest
Provides students hands on experience with Cloud technology & multiple operating systems using C, Java™, COBOL, assembler, REXX™, Linux®, z/VM®, z/OS®, z/TPF and more. No prerequisites.
Recruit a Winner!
Winners listed on “Wall of Fame”
2015 Contest
2016 Contest
Part 2 and 3 winners have most acquired experience
Russia/Ukraine and MEA completed earlier this year
Master the Mainframe 2015 Contest Over 10,000 participants!!

6. Find candidates
No-cost Job Connector

7. Bootcamp Model Industry sponsor Boot Camp University partner Benefits
Identifies internships/ new hire positions they need to fill
Partners with local university to plan a 1 week boot camp
Boot Camp
Students must apply to be admitted to free boot camp
On the last day, all students interviewed for announced # of positions
Taught by university faculty, IBM or Industry expert
University partner
Provides facilities and advertising, recruits the students
Students may be university students or continuing education students
Benefits
Students see mainframe as elite and in-demand
Extended interview process for employers (see first hand how students learn)
Educate more students in mainframe skills than possible in regular program
Relatively quick to put together and customizable for specific skill needs

8. Train: No-cost options
Master the Mainframe Learning Management System
z/OS Introduction and Workshop
Next class targeted for 1Q17
IMS Customer Internship Program
April 3 – April 14
z/OS Customer Internship
Fall 2017
Redbooks CICS Video Course
Developing a RESTful Web application with Liberty for CICS

9. Train: No-cost options
z Systems eLearning for IBM Customers
z Fundamentals, Value & Differentiation, Linux, Security, Cloud, Analytics, Mobile
Mainframe Playground
z/OS, 196 Exercises, 41 Assignments, Self-Study
IBM zED Webtalks 2017
Cognitive and Integrated z Systems Solutions, Continuous Delivery z Systems with UrbanCode Deploy
IBM Systems Magazine z Webinars
IBM z/OS YouTube Videos
Other helpful resources can be found here:
zED Talks - What topics are covered? This series will focus on new innovation that matters in helping IT organizations prepare to make the right operational software decisions, with IBM z Systems as their foundation to support their business DevOps/Cloud strategy.
Who should attend?
LOB enterprise architects
Application architects, programming staff
IT business development and operations managers
IBM Confidential

10. Train: For fee certificate programs
Badges for z/OS System z Developers (Intro, Intermediate, and Advanced), CICS, and a z/OS Bootcamp
z/OS Professional Certificates in z/OS Associate, Professional and Expert, COBOL, DB2, IMS, and Assembler
Undergraduate and Graduate Certificates in Enterprise OS, CICS, COBOL and Java
Undergraduate certificates in z/OS, COBOL, Networking, DB2, and Assembler
z Systems Specialization for System Operators and System Specialists (18 – 24 month programs)
RMU - Professional Certificates
Students may first enroll in an undergraduate or graduate Enterprise Certificate program. All Enterprise Certificate courses earn undergraduate or graduate credits, which may be transferred into and used to complete either a graduate or undergraduate degree at some future date. A student's ability to earn undergraduate or graduate credit permits employers to apply education benefits to funding their training needs.
RMU CIS Enterprise Certificate courses are not "training" courses. These certificate courses adhere to the high quality education quality and assessment standards required by ABET accreditation and employers. This is "why" RMU CIS graduates have a proven track record of success in careers in many corporations. Availability of Online Courses and Off Campus Courses
All System z courses and certificates are available in an online, instructional format using the Blackboard Learning Management System. Customized education and demonstration videos and virtual classrooms are provided to provide an education environment comparable to an on-ground education experience. The customized assignments provide a tutorial-like, guided experience. The online quizzes and tests are challenging.
System z courses may be offered off-campus using a hybrid approach that met the needs of an employer or another academic institution. Please contact either Dr.Tannehill or Professor Turchek for more details.
Pacific Life Gets Ahead of Retirement with Mainframe Academy Training Program

11. Professionals Exams mtpexams.com Each exam is one full day in duration
Each exam comprises a number of mandatory subjects and some
optional subjects
The exam questions are structured as multiple-choice questions and a combination of simple and complex completion (fill in the missing words/code/etc.) questions
Exams are run under strictly invigilated conditions
Per candidate fees are £299.00* in the UK, €325.00* (Euro) in the
rest of Europe and $375.00* (USD) in the rest of the world.
* Plus any local taxes
Tech Support and Operations one day exam includes:
IBM mainframe computing concepts
z/OS concepts
Job Control Language (JCL)
TSO/ISPF
Basic z/OS security using RACF (optional)
REXX - practical expertise (optional)
VSAM (optional)
basic job scheduling skills (TWS, CA-7 or CONTROL-M) (optional)
Level 1 Applications Developers one day exam includes:
COBOL (or Assembler) programming skills
Testing - at the program level (optional)
Structured program design (optional)
Embedded SQL use (optional)
Level 2 z/OS Specialist
Level 2 Security
RACF and security - knowledge of theory
RACF - practical expertise
Level 2 Data Storage
z/OS data storage software
the ability to write & test ACS routines
data storage hardware features & management
UNIX System Services (optional)
the ability to maintain an HSM environment (optional)
Level 2 Operations Specialist
z/OS operations - knowledge of theory
JES2 - operations - knowledge of theory (for JES2 users)
JES3 - operations & features - knowledge of theory (for JES3 users)
Parallel sysplex operations (optional)
DB2 for z/OS operations (optional)
mtpexams.com
IBM Confidential

12. Train IBM Global Training Providers Additional z Training Providers
LearnQuest
Arrow
Global Knowledge
Avnet
Ingram Micro
Interskill
MentorServices
ProTech
Global Technology Solutions Group
ProTech: Mainframe training and Bootcamps
IBM Confidential

13. Train: Attend Conferences
50% off
Discounts Available
SHARE Conference
March 5 – 10, San Jose, CA
August 2017, Rhode Island
Interconnect
March 19 – 23, Las Vegas, NV
IDUG DB2 Technical Conference
April 30 – May 4, Anaheim, CA
Oct 1-5 Lisbon, Portuguel
IBM Systems Technical University
May 22-26, Orlando Florida
International events in Cairo, Dubai, Colombia, Toronto, Sao Paulo, and Sydney
VM Workshop
June 22 – 24, Columbus, OH
Discount process for SHARE:
to obtain the $975 full week registration rate you must:
·        provide a photocopy of a valid form of ID with their birthdate sent to The code is exclusive to people who are born DURING or AFTER 1982, and who are not IBM Employees or SHARE Ribbon wearing volunteers.
30% off
Discounts Available
IBM Confidential

14. Train: Attend No Cost Council Meetings and User Groups
IBM z Council Meetings: Feb. 16 – Hartford, CT; Feb.16 – Arizona; Feb NYC ; Feb. 28 – Toronto, Canada; March 23, Las Vegas, NV
DB2 Regional User Groups
Virtual CICS User Group
Virtual IMS User Group
RACF User Groups
VM User Groups
CICS training materials:
CICS Manuals & Reference Guides, Websites, User Groups, Announcements, Presentations, Webinars, Sample Code, etc, V edited by Erich Noll, CISSP
User Groups: Trevor Eddols : Archives: Newsletters, Recordings & Transcripts: Trevor Eddols : Code Samples: Sean Ashley : Links: Steve Ware : (1) Selected SHARE presentations : (2) Socket Interface - Tips and Techniques: (3) Sample code: (4) Install page has "recommended" and "required" CICS manuals: (5) Later version of CICS Socket Interface - Tips and Techniques in PDF form: Manuals: David Staudacher: CICS Transaction Server for z/OS Bookshelves (PDF Only!): - v v v v v v v v v2.2   CICS Transaction Server for OS/390 Bookshelves: - v v v1.1 ("Licensed" Bookshelves): - v v v1.1
for CICS Forum and there’s a SHARE Archive with some presentations as well:
IMS Training:
LinkedIn Article, All things IMS for experts:
IMS V14 Iall PDFS in one location)
IMS V13
IMS Technical Symposium 2016 presentations:
IBM Confidential

15. Retain: Attend a Gen z Workshop
Maximize retention of of 0-5 year hires working on your z Systems business
Enlighten
Excite
Empower
Innovate
Team work
Design Thinking
Network
Have fun
Build a community
Generation z is aimed at those who have just left university and are starting a career on the z Systems platform.
The first 5 years of a new hires’ career on the mainframe involves a vast amount of learning, regardless of how good a job their university did to prepare them. Their experience is often marked by 3 factors:
Having to climb a really steep learning curve
They often don’t get visibility of leading edge projects
There’s often no one else in their university peer group who works on the mainframe – they feel like they’ve gone off the map
Generation z unites recent z hires from around the world to show them z a vibrant platform for the next generation, to make clear the value of working on the mainframe, and the possibilities for innovation and really impactful projects.
We’d like to invite your hires to join the Gen z program and take part in our one-day “Welcome to the Mainframe” workshop. There’s no charge to attend, and it’s designed to both open their eyes to what makes z Systems a really cool technology to work on, how great the career prospects are, and how many other people are just like them.
After the event, they will become part of an online network that brings together new hires working on z so they can talk about challenges they are facing, ask questions and grow their network. The IBM Gen z group has grown to over 250 members since January 2015 and continues to expand.
The “Welcome to the Mainframe” workshop is open to those in the first 5 years of their career who work in ANY capacity on z Systems – sys progs, application developers, documentation writers, and beyond. It’s easy to enquire about a workshop – just Indi Singh at IBM.
Visit our Gen z webpage to schedule your workshop!

16. Hear from z millenials making headlines…

17. …Beating the competition..

18. …and written in their own words
Kyle Beausoleil from Rocket
How to Reach Millennial Programmers
How to Communicate with Millennials about the Mainframe
How to Hire Young Mainframers
Holden O’Neal from SAS
Bringing new blood to the mainframe: A millennial’s perspective
Speaker Notes:
Background
The 2014 Master the Mainframe World Championship was a spectacular success as the world watched 42 finalists representing 22 countries competing for honor, glory, and of course prizes. Global corporate sponsors like Visa, Metlife, First Citizens Bank, and BB&T Bank were happy to judge the submitted results from the students and provide individualized feedback that tied back real world computing challenges that companies face everyday. This invitational event turned out to be more than a global coding competition for top notch college students studying computer science. This event was an opportunity to build expertise, to tour IBM’s z Systems world class manufacturing plant in Poughkeepsie, to hear directly from young professionals already employed in lucrative enterprise computing jobs, and to foster a network of business relationships that for many contestants continues even today.
The next z Systems Master the Mainframe World Championship will occur in 2016 and will include more contestants, additional countries, and new and exciting app-building challenges...all of which run on IBM z Systems. Top winners of the country contests will be invited to participate in the 2016 World Championship.
Budget: $75K
Notes about the Schedule
2nd or 3rd week of April we announce the World Championship; around 100 students from countries that participated in the contest since April 2014.
2nd two weeks in May, we run a global ‘local’ contest. Something around analytics would be ideal.
First week of June we announce the top 10 winners that will be brought to the US to compete.
We will be basing this competition around Edge....Sept. 19th – 22nd.
Sept. 17th the students will fly into San Francisco.
Sept. 18th we do a tour of the city. Bus tour? Walking tour? Whatever we decide. Just a day of relaxation before the big event, and to let those jet lagged rest and catch up to the new time zone.
Sept. 19th is competition day. We will be at the IBM Bluemix Garage in San Francisco for them to do an entire day competition. This will be live streamed throughout different sessions and booth at Edge in Las Vegas.
Sept. 20th we announce the order of winners. We do a client meeting? Back at the Garage, or some other planned event for all of them.
Evening of the 20th, all students fly home except for the 1st and 2nd place winners. We fly them right into Las Vegas for a night at the MGM Grand.
Sept. 21st winners are brought on stage to be announced to the world. I’d say let them present their final projects at a booth at Edge.
Night of the 21st, or morning of the 22nd, winners fly home.
Abinash Satapathy – Master the Mainframe Student
A College Student’s Passion for Learning z/OS !

19. Industry Support Options
Industry Advisory Council
Internships
Guest Lecture
Hackathon Workshop Meetup
Capstone Projects

20. Project Collaborations
Industry identifies a project
industry is interested in investigating
students can do in a semester (or two)
students can do with the HW/SW resources available to them
4th year college students have the skills to do or can learn
University identifies students
Students have the skills and talents to do the project
Either as part of a capping course or as a stipend funded project
Ongoing support
Faculty provide ongoing support and skills enhancements
Industry partner provides technical expertise and industry direction
Benefits
Students learn skills in a real-world context, build resume
Industry has prototyping that is more affordable than doing in house
Students already skilled in new technology ready for hire

21. zUniversity Ambassadors
Goal of the Program
Encourage universities to expose students to current z topics
Build relationships between industry and education
Communicate successes
Role of the Ambassador
Communicate zAI opportunities for students and faculty
Lead engagement activities or recruit volunteers
Acts as a liaison between the university and the IBM Academic Initiative
“Be the glue” between people engaged with the school
How to Assist the School

23. IBM Blockchain for Business – LinuxONE™
Customers that prefer an on premise solution can run Blockchain on their own LinuxONE server.
IBM z Systems clients seeking to innovate with Blockchain have a unique value proposition
Co-location and adjacency that leverages decades of investment in IBM z Systems applications and transaction systems through APIs and micro-services.
Hardware performance advantages in our scalable, secure, high-performance systems.
Highest Security, and Financial Certifications.
Community + Code
Linux Hyperledger Project
IBM Software Portfolio
Connector technologies | Systems management | DevOps

24. Linux Foundation’s Hyperledger Project
Linux Foundation project announced December 17, 2015 with 17 founders, now nearly 100 members
The Hyperledger Project is a collaborative effort to advance Blockchain technology by identifying and addressing important features for a cross-industry open standard for distributed ledgers that can transform the way business transactions are conducted globally
Open source and open standards-based
QUICK FACTS
Chairman
Blythe Masters/DAH
Executive Director
Brian Behlendorf
Technical Chair
Chris Ferris/IBM
Contribution
44,000 lines of code in February 2016
Sprint to one codebase with unified thinking
Staged releases
Steering Committee
Enable adoption of shared ledger technology at a pace and depth not achievable by any one company or industry

25. Get your hands dirty Watch videos & read articles
Blockchain a demo, teaches about hashing, nonce and mining
CuriousInventor Bitcoin Series – teaches about technical aspects
Donna Dillenberger– demo of smart contracts
Milken Institute panel discussion – why blockchain will change the world
PCMag "Blockchain: The Invisible Technology That's Changing the World"
Education for developers, earn badges
Requires Bluemix account, free trial for students at onthehub.com/ibm/
Contribute to Hyperledger
Play around
Blockchain on LinuxOne Community Cloud

26. IBM LinuxONE COMMUNITY CLOUD
Open Access
IBM LinuxONE COMMUNITY CLOUD
Fast. Easy. Free.
Linux is Linux and LinuxONE is no different.
It gives all the benefits of the tools you already know and love (KVM, SUSE, DOCKER, MONGO, JAVA) along with the qualities only LinuxONE brings to the open world (performance, speed and security).
And to prove it, for everyone here today: you can log in to the new IBM LinuxONE Community Cloud and take it for a test drive yourself in just minutes.
For many years, we have been asked by developers and by students, “How can I get access to these systems? How can I test applications? How can I use sandboxes? How can I develop proof of concepts?” Clients have come to us and asked similar questions. So now, we offer the IBM LinuxONE Community Cloud. We are providing open access to LinuxONE virtual machines where you can do exactly that. Come into the systems, get a sandbox, build a proof of concept, try out new tools, try out new technologies, port, test, benchmark an application. Very, very
exciting new capability.
And if your skeptical or simply worried about trying something new…watch this and hopefully you will be inspired to take the next step.
It really is simple… access in minutes or just a few clicks. (6 min for first time registration, drops to 3 min from then on once we know who you are).
ibm.com/linuxone/try
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27. Open source on the mainframe lacks a neutral home for growth
Open Mainframe Project
Open Source and Mainframe in 2015 and before
Disconnected, independent efforts; no shared “hub” of innovation
Community events are industry specific, also not vendor agnostic
Open source on the mainframe lacks a neutral home for growth
No place for students and academic institutions to engage
Enterprise level engagement with upstream projects limited
Many users, many developers, many vendors but almost all are working independently or in small groups to improve open source on the mainframe. There was no open “hub” for intersecting together.
Open source software is built in a “scratch your own itch” model, but unless improvements are shared within a community, the benefits are not realized by the community.
Coordinating Enterprise Grade improvements to upstream projects is limited today and could improve the quality of improvements and ease of getting them accepted upstream.
Events, meetings and attempts to coordinate are often led by individual vendors and are often industry specific, lack a community driven purpose, organic interest or are not designed to help the collective community.
Academic institutions are looking for ways to get their students practical experience to prepare for employment with large Enterprises; clients are looking for skills to employ.
Open Source communities prosper when there is a neutral home for collaboration, built under rules that encourage participation and sharing, and are designed for the purpose of building technology that the community wants to invest collectively to build together. There are many opportunities for leveraging an open source community focused on the needs of Enterprise Grade environments.

28. Create an open source community to benefit Linux on the mainframe
Open Mainframe Project
Solving this through open source
Create an open source community to benefit Linux on the mainframe
Bring together end-users, solution providers, app developers, and system administrators
Provide the neutral technical infrastructure and governance for the open source project to flourish
Create an open source, technical community that industry and community participants may easily participate in and so that they may contribute to the creation of assets and materials that will benefit the development of Enterprise Grade characteristics of Linux such as:
High Availability and Disaster Recovery
Security
Reliability, Availability and Serviceability
Performance and Scalability
Include participation of leading members of the ecosystem, including end users, solution providers, application developers and systems administrators to ensure the Open Mainframe Project addresses the needs of the community.
Hosting the infrastructure for the open source project, establishing a neutral home for community meetings, events and collaborative discussions and providing structure around the business and technical governance of the project.

29. Open Mainframe Project
Academic Focus: Mainframe awareness through Linux and Open Source
Bringing Linux and Open Source education on the mainframe to academic institutions will produce the workforce of tomorrow.
Initiatives include:
Sponsored Summer Internship program
NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS through Feb 1
Partnership with Linux Foundation Training to help educated facility and students on Linux and Open Source
Partnership opportunities between Open Mainframe Project and academic institutions for real life self-study and class project programs
Potential academic projects that the Open Mainframe Project may undertake include:
Publication of model curricula for Linux on the Mainframe courses;
Donation of fully-functional mainframe Linux environments to colleges and universities; these environments would be staffed and maintained by students;
Specific training to prepare students to contribute to open source projects, potentially leading to particular projects within the Open Mainframe Project being hosted within academic institutions, with students potentially members of the TSC;
College road shows displaying the opportunities that exist in the Mainframe Linux industry to students and soon-to-be graduates;
Organized job-fairs;
Sponsorship (whether by the provision of funding or making key teaching talent available) of free, on-line training courses open to all students;
Funding of a teaching chair at one or more targeted institutions; and
Organized, nation-wide (or even international) internship opportunities for students at member academic institutions.

30. How to Join the Open Mainframe Project
Find out more the Project at
Fill in the online form for more info:
Alternatively contact John Mertic at the Linux Foundation:
Research other Linux Foundation Collaborative Projects:

31. We are here to help - Contact Us!
Meredith Stowell
Director, Ecosystems for z Systems
Christy Schroeder
Client Skills Leader
Misty Decker
zAI Pgm Mgr
Klaus Rutsch
Europe AI Pgm Mgr
Ludmila Canuto de Melo Ferreira Salimena
Brazil AI Pgm Mgr
Tian Tian
China AI Pgm Mgr
Paul Newton
MtM IT Specialist
Troy Crutcher
MtM AI Pgm

32. Thank you!