Entry Programmer Training - Growing Your Own Programmers
With the current shortage of programming talent, many companies have decided to develop their own programming staff. This may involve taking non-IS people currently working for your company and training them to become programmers, or it may involve hiring recent college graduates and bringing them up to speed on working in the IBM mainframe environment.
These programs go by various names: EPT (Entry Programmer Training), BPT (Basic Programmer Training), PBT (Programmer Basic Training), Programming Boot Camp, and so on.
We have been involved in these kinds of programs for over 30 years. We can work with you to develop a program tailored to your needs, using our quality materials and instructors, to get new people up and running quickly. You take charge of selecting your candidates. Your people sit with our people to discuss content, tailoring, and scheduling, and we're off and running.
While most of the EPT offerings we have been involved with used COBOL as the language of choice, we have also done these using Assembler and PL/I. In every case, we start with a core curriculum then work with you to adjust content and timing. Once students complete the core content successfully, they can take any mix of electives that they will need on their actual assignment (for example, DB2, CICS, IMS, Language Environment, and so on).
Core curriculum for COBOL EPT
Introduction to Application Programming (z/OS) - 2 days
TSO/ISPF in z/OS - 3 days
Structured COBOL Workshop for Enterprise COBOL - 5 days
z/OS JCL and Utilities - 3 days
Advanced Topics in COBOL (Enterprise, z/OS) - 3 daysEnterprise COBOL Debugging and Maintenance - 2 days
Core curriculum for PL/I EPT
Introduction to Application Programming (z/OS) - 2 days
TSO/ISPF in z/OS - 3 days
Structured PL/I Coding Workshop - 5 days
z/OS JCL and Utilities - 3 days
Advanced Topics in PL/I - 5 days
PL/I Debugging and Maintenance - 2 days
or
PL/I Debugging and Maintenance in the LE Environment - 2 days
or
Enterprise PL/I Debugging and Maintenance - 2 days
Core curriculum for Assembler Language EPT
Introduction to Application Programming (z/OS) - 2 days
TSO/ISPF in z/OS - 3 days
OS/390 Assembler Language: Classic - 5 days
z/OS Assembler: Basic Interfaces - 3 days
Assembler Language: Update - 1 day
z/OS JCL and Utilities - 3 days
this page last updated: 26 April, 2008
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