IBM Mainframe Developer Professional Certificate

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IBM Mainframe Developer Professional Certificate

Mainframe COBOL Programmer Developer Analyst. Learn and use COBOL programming language.

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7 course series

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3 months at 10 hours a week

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7 course series

Earn a career credential that demonstrates your expertise

4.4

(463 reviews)

Intermediate level

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3 months at 10 hours a week

Flexible schedule

Earn a career credential

Share your expertise with employers

What you'll learn

Gain the job-ready skills for an entry-level mainframe programming role. Mainframe computers continue to power many mission-critical, financial, banking, and government agency systems. There are 220 billion lines of COBOL in use today. 43% of banking systems are built on COBOL, and 95% percent of ATM swipes rely on COBOL code.¹

COBOL is scalable, mature, and self-documenting. You'll learn about COBOL from its birth and through its evolution. You'll learn new features and aspects of the language, while also getting hands-on experience to increase your knowledge and abilities with COBOL as a whole. You’ll work with a variety of IBM, COBOL, and mainframe assets, project scenarios, including COBOL programming basics, TSO, ISPF, gaining practical experience with mainframe data management and software development techniques. This Professional Certificate does not require any prior programming skills and is suitable for learners without college degrees. Upon successful completion of this program, you’ll have analyzed the real-world mainframe environment, reviewed mainframe assets and data, and presented and created a software development plan, giving you the confidence and the portfolio to begin a career as a mainframe programmer. ¹Reuters Graphics: COBOL Blues

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87 practice exercises

Professional Certificate - 7 course series

Power your programming career by learning the core principles of mainframe programming and software development through hands-on skills practice. Learners will build and complete COBOL code and projects utilizing an IBM z/OS mainframe lab environment, with instructions and videos to help guide them. Upon completion, learners will have accessed, reviewed, and interacted with an actual IBM mainframe computer, created sample data sets and lines of COBOL code. Learners will create a detailed software development plan and supporting systems analysis documentation.

Introduction to Enterprise Computing

Course 19 hours4.7 (1,038 ratings)View course

What you'll learn

Identify the different architectural families, explain the enhancements for each architecture family and the functions of an operating system
Explain the concept of a Sysplex and describe methods available for z/OS security.
Define the IOCP statements for the IOCDS and explain the concept of activation profiles.
Describe the process of IPLing an operating system

Skills you'll gain

Category: z/OS

Category: Mainframe Computing

Category: Enterprise Security

Category: Infrastructure Architecture

Category: IBM Cloud

Category: Computer Systems

Category: Cryptography

Category: Virtual Machines

Category: Virtualization

Category: System Configuration

Category: Computer Architecture

Category: Computer Hardware

IBM COBOL Basics

Course 210 hours4.6 (121 ratings)View course

What you'll learn

COBOL is a programming language that serves a wide range of businesses. Key aspects of COBOL are that it is scalable, mature, and self-documenting.

Skills you'll gain

Category: COBOL (Programming Language)

Category: Data Structures

Category: Programming Principles

Category: Business Logic

Category: Debugging

Category: Procedure Development

Category: Editing

Category: Mainframe Computing

Category: Data Storage

IBM COBOL Core

Course 38 hours4.3 (60 ratings)View course

What you'll learn

COBOL is a programming language that serves a wide range of businesses. Key aspects of COBOL are that it is scalable, mature, and self-documenting.

Skills you'll gain

Category: COBOL (Programming Language)

Category: Programming Principles

Category: Maintainability

Category: Data Maintenance

Category: Debugging

Category: Software Engineering

Category: Business Logic

Category: Report Writing

Category: Software Testing

Category: Computer Programming

IBM COBOL Software Development Practices

Course 415 hours3.7 (60 ratings)View course

What you'll learn

This course is aimed at anybody interested in COBOL or or software development. In this course, you will be introduced to core practices, systems, and methodologies associated with IBM COBOL software development. You will learn about COBOL as a self-documenting language. You will review working with existing coding. This course also covers quality assurance (QA), technical support and project management.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Scrum (Software Development)

Category: Quality Assurance

Category: Agile Methodology

Category: Software Development Life Cycle

Category: Technical Support

Category: COBOL (Programming Language)

Category: Software Documentation

Category: Technical Documentation

Category: Software Quality Assurance

Category: Program Development

Category: Code Review

Category: Computer Programming

Category: Debugging

Category: Software Development

IBM COBOL Data and File Management

Course 514 hours3.6 (49 ratings)View course

What you'll learn

Welcome to IBM COBOL – Data and File Management! By enrolling in this course, you are taking a big step in increasing your knowledge and hands on experience with IBM COBOL data and file management. In this course, you will learn the fundamental elements of COBOL code. You will learn the process of working with COBOL data. You will learn handling COBOL files. This course also relational databases in a mainframe, COBOL context. So let’s get started!

Skills you'll gain

Category: COBOL (Programming Language)

Category: File Management

Category: Job Control Language (JCL)

Category: Relational Databases

Category: Command-Line Interface

Category: IBM DB2

Category: Programming Principles

Category: z/OS

Category: Databases

Category: Mainframe Computing

Category: Database Management Systems

Category: Data Management

Category: Data Storage

Category: Computer Programming

IBM COBOL Basic Testing and Debugging

Course 611 hours4.4 (120 ratings)View course

What you'll learn

Welcome to IBM COBOL – Basic Testing and Debugging! By enrolling in this course, you are taking a big step in increasing your knowledge and hands on experience with IBM COBOL testing and debugging topics and technologies. In this course, you will describe common errors associated with working with COBOL. You will list file status codes. You will also describe the process of debugging COBOL code. So let’s get started!

Skills you'll gain

Category: Debugging

Category: COBOL (Programming Language)

Category: Test Driven Development (TDD)

Category: Unit Testing

Category: Integrated Development Environments

Category: Mainframe Computing

Category: z/OS

Category: File Management

Category: Software Testing

IBM COBOL Software Development Process

Course 715 hours4.3 (55 ratings)View course

What you'll learn

This course is geared towards anyone interested in learning about IBM, COBOL, mainframe computing, and the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) and increasing their knowledge and hands on experience with core concepts and technologies including life cycle and systems analysis concepts, design and structured coding, and a wide variety of topics designed to provide relevant, requisite working knowledge and practical experience.

Skills you'll gain

Category: COBOL (Programming Language)

Category: Agile Methodology

Category: Scrum (Software Development)

Category: Pseudocode

Category: Software Development Life Cycle

Category: Mainframe Computing

Category: Systems Architecture

Category: Unit Testing

Category: Systems Analysis

Category: Software Development

Category: Test Planning

Category: Programming Principles

Category: z/OS

Category: Software Design

Category: Software Development Methodologies

Category: Systems Development

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