[Info-vax] OpenVMS async I/O, fast vs. slow

[Dan Cross]

In article <0c8ed1d9-ae12-4086-b1f8-0d647b5f5891n at googlegroups.com>,
Jake Hamby (Solid State Jake) <jake.hamby at gmail.com> wrote:
>On Sunday, November 5, 2023 at 10:43:09 AM UTC-8, Dan Cross wrote:
>> In article <kqq5kd... at mid.individual.net>,
>> bill <bill.gu... at gmail.com> wrote: 
>> >On 11/5/2023 1:18 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> >> [snip]
>> >> But that does mean that it would make sense for colleges 
>> >> to spew out hundreds or thousands of people with solid 
>> >> PL/I skills. 
>> > 
>> >No one says hundreds of thousands. But if 1% of CS and CIS 
>> >students were offered a course in COBOL or Fortran or PL/I 
>> >it would provide a pool of about 2000 candidates a year. A 
>> >little better than 0.
>> I wonder why you're so focused on confronting this in the 
>> university system? What is so different about a single semester 
>> course and a short-term job with OJT and an option to hire full 
>> time at the end for new graduates? 
>> 
>> If these organizations are so eager to hire programmers with 
>> COBOL and Fortran experience, why don't they take charge of the 
>> situation and provide the experience themselves? 
>
>IBM has a very successful program for self-taught instruction for university students, originally called "Master the Mainframe", which they've
>opened up to the general public under the name "IBM Z Xplore". It's quite fun. I highly recommend it. The challenges walk you through how to
>use VS Code to submit COBOL, JCL, and HLASM, how to use ISPF on a 3270 terminal, how to use the UNIX shell via ssh, how to use their modern
>Python integration, and one challenge uses the LinuxONE community cloud account and walks you through setting up Apache there to serve some
>files.
>
>IBM also has a variety of badges and certificates you can get by taking courses in their catalog on COBOL, LinuxONE, REXX, z/OS system
>administration, and more. Many of those courses give you Web remote access to a time-limited Windows VM on an intranet that connects to their
>student account they create for you automatically when you sign up for the course, with a pre-configured Windows 3270 emulator. The Z Xplore
>courses also give you a student account but show you how to connect from your own PC/Linux/Mac. I'm still working through the Z Xplore
>courses.

Sounds very time limited.  :-(

	- Dan C.