I’m an IT manager from one of those failed financial institutions who has been recently told that 90% my staff (including myself) will no longer be needed. We are admin and initial engineering support for several z/OS (mainframe) apps.
I know some of you will be saying, ‘mainframes!..get out of the 80’s’, but for those of you who work for large insurance and financial institutions, mainframes are alive and well (they’re big servers anyway)
I’m wondering what opinions the TechRepublic community might say to help me steer my staff into other IT fields. Finding mainframe jobs is near impossible now.
Should they get distributed based certifications? if so which ones? They are a good tech savvy group with a lot of years in this field. (You may note the ‘age’ reference here, which is another wonderful hurdle to overcome).