Nilanshu DharmaSudhir Adhikari

Yan Cui

Student’s Perspective ITK ECS Program

ISU Team

AgendaWhy we chose ECS?ITK coursesCiti Internship experienceSummary

Mainframes are dying???Lack of knowledge about mainframesArticlesSurveys “Expert opinions”

School of IT @ ISUCourse 1: Z/OS basics concepts, architecture, TSO, JCL, Coupling FacilityCourse 2: Z/OS concepts and telecommunication concepts, SNA, TCP/IPIndustry Exposure: Visit to State Farm and John Deere

Citi Internship – Group Structure

Z -OS

Web CICS

Important Concepts

Citi Internship – work structureImportant Concepts - SMPE, IPL process, TSO, REXXMVS support –ISPF dialog development, JCL, CLIST to Rexx, Comparison reports WebSphere - Website Redesign and Consolidation, Unix environ, HFSCICS –Rexx for status reports, CICS tools and utilities, Review system log and take dumps

ECS as career

Learning Curve

Advanced Course ECS

Citi Internship

ITK Course 2ITK Course 1

Fall 06 Spring 07 Summer 07

Time

SummaryAnalogy with dial toneGood fundamentalsIndustry trainingGood career choice Existing demand Stable technologyIntegrated knowledge area (COBOL to XML)

Its was fun too!

Questions?Thanks