Access to hands-on learning tracks across multiple mainframe job roles
Access over 700 hours of self-paced IBM Z® learning content. Experience hands-on content and labs and earn industry-recognized badges and credit certifications to build in-demand skills.
Whether you are new to IT and the mainframe or want to expand your skills, the Mainframe Skills Depot makes choosing your learning path simple. This simplicity is achieved by organizing learning according to four primary job roles:
- System administrator: Learn how to ensure the uptime, performance, resources and security of a mainframe with skills such as CICS®, Db2®, IMS and more.
- Security specialist: Understand security principles on IBM Z systems, core concepts, tools and technologies essential for securing IBM Z environments. Explore IBM Z's unique architecture, storage systems and operating environments and focus on key security features like RACF® and z/OS® system protection.
- Application developer: Discover how to maintain, enhance and support applications for your enterprise with skills including COBOL, Java™, Python and more.
- Modernization architect: Integrate mainframe applications into the broader enterprise and modernize the existing application landscape. Learn proven patterns and capabilities to integrate AI, APIs, DevOps tooling and real-time information sharing among other application modernization techniques.
Turn-key training for career seekers and enterprises
- Choose between IBM validated roadmaps for the system administrator, security specialist or application developer role.
- Earn certificate badges for skills verification, including the IBM z/OS practitioner certificate and the IBM Z Xplore Credly badges.
- Live hands-on labs on IBM Z servers.
Modernize your toolkit
- Mainframe modernization seekers can access learning to meet modernization business objectives.
- Employees can upskill and reskill by choosing between 7 entry points to introduce modernization on the mainframe.
Pick your track
This learning track includes paths to gain the knowledge that is needed as a mainframe system administrator. These tracks contain over 300 hours of self-paced, hands-on training with foundational and advanced topics. Skills include z/OS system administration, CICS, Db2, IMS and more. Earn industry-recognized Credly digital badges to elevate your skills to employers as you begin your career.
This learning track includes over 200 hours of self-paced and classroom training with hands-on to prepare you to be a security specialist. Understand security principles on IBM Z systems, including IBM Z's RACF, and gain knowledge in networking security, cryptography and quantum-safe security.
This learning path tracks over 250 hours of self-paced hands-on training to prepare you for the mainframe application developer. Discover agile practices, big data and analytics, web development, programming languages, DevOps and IBM applications. Skills include COBOL, Java, Python, CICS, IMS, GitHub and more.
This learning track explores the seven modernization patterns to architect solutions to meet your modernization business objectives. The result is an agile and seamlessly integrated hybrid cloud platform with a modern mainframe at the core. Skills include Db2, z/OS Connect, Automatic Binary Optimizer (ABO), Open Data Analytics, AI, COBOL and more.