Offered free for the remainder of 2009, you can learn learn how to use
Rational Developer for System z, and also how to program in
COBOL using RDz by following the online links below - reading notes, and doing workshops. Here are the modules, listed in the recommended learning order:
- Rational Developer for System z modules
- New to z/OS and the IBM mainframe world? Check out: zOS Terms and Concepts
- COBOL Learning Modules
Comments on the courseWare (suggestions, etc.) should be eMailed to Jon Sayles:
jsayles@us.ibm.com-----
**** IMPORTANT NOTE ON BROWSER SUPPORT ****
As it's turned out, the way I converted the Powerpoint into HTML (Save As...Web Page....) not surprisingly makes viewing the documents almost impossible using FireFox - and looking glorious, using I.E. I will try and create PDFs for all the modules, but until then, you can still grab a copy of the original powerpoint from:
...Or...
With thanks to Stephen Heffner, President Pennington Systems, Scottsdale AZ .. do the following to make Mozilla/FireFox render like Microsoft IE:
- Upgrade to Mozilla/FireFox version 3 (or later)
- From: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1419 - download the IE Tab Add-on for Mozilla/FireFox --- Note: This will add a .xpi file on your PC, so you will have to ensure credentials anti-virus updates, etc.
- Open/Launch Mozilla/FireFox
- From the File menu, open the downloaded .xpi file
- Launch the site for the browser version of the
- Open the Tools > IE Tab option
- Select URL for the online version of the course: http://www.jsayles.com/ibm/cobol/onlineCourseWare/