Mainframe Vitality Program

The Vitality Program helps build lasting workforce resiliency—whether you’re an organization looking to nurture new mainframe talent or a learner interested in pursuing an exciting new career. We recruit, train, and mentor Vitality students on the products you use, and assign them to your site—all at no cost to you. Together, we’re shaping the future of mainframe workforce.

Vitality: Bridging Talent and Opportunity

Whether you’re an organization seeking to future-proof your mainframe workforce or a learner eager to embark on a thriving mainframe career, the Vitality Program is your catalyst to forward momentum.

For organizations, Vitality closes the skills gap by enabling seamless knowledge transfer between tenured staff, Broadcom experts, and the Vitality resident. The result? A highly skilled, well-mentored individual trained on the tools you rely on daily—all fully funded by Broadcom. To learn more about Vitality for your organization, reach out to us: Mainframe.Vitality@Broadcom.com.

As an aspiring mainframe professional, launch your career journey forward with expert-led training in mainframe fundamentals and Broadcom technologies, followed by immersive, hands-on experience at a customer site, giving you invaluable insight into real-world systems and applications.

The Journey to Become a Mainframer

Mainframe Foundations & Product Training

Introduction and practice of Mainframe operational language, utilities, concepts and Broadcom product training.

Mentoring

Fundamentals & Product Training

Partnering with technical experts to learn from and lean on.

On-site Residency

Fundamentals & Product Training

At no cost to you, the Resident joins your team to take direction from senior technicians to build knowledge about your environment.

Ready for Mainframe Career

Fundamentals & Product Training

After 4 to 6 months, the Resident is ready to join your team in pursuit of a mainframe career.

Vitality Residency Program Focus Areas

Open to both Broadcom Vitality Residents and customer employees

Mainframe Foundations

Prerequisite: None

A 7-week training on the foundational mainframe programming skills delivered in a blend of remote, instructor-led, web-based and self-paced accelerated learning path. The mainframe bootcamp is over 220 hours of training which includes multiple labs and exercises culminated with a capstone project. This course will cover the spectrum of mainframe processing, programming concepts and applications.

System Programmer Foundations

Prerequisite: Mainframe Foundations or qualification test

Systems Programmer Foundations is a 5-week onboarding program created to help successfully build upon foundational mainframe products skill sets. With a strong focus on technical skills, students will dive into z/OS Basics, JCL, REXX and more. The Systems Programmer Foundations program contains hands-on workshops and exercises and is taught by experts; past and present, who bring real-life experiences to each session.

Database Product Training

Product: Datacom, IDMS

Prerequisite: Mainframe Foundations, System Programmer Foundations, or opt-out by passing the Qualification Test

The Vitality Resident will spend 6 weeks learning how to create database structures, maintain the environment and analyze system performance. Residents will gain intermediate knowledge and skills in an immersive hands-on experience learning curriculum.

Security Product Training

Product: ACF2, Top Secret

Prerequisite: Mainframe Foundations, System Programmer Foundations, or opt-out by passing the Qualification Test

The Vitality Resident will spend 6 weeks learning the product environment, how to perform configuration, as well as how to implement access control and setup security for member level protection, certificates and pass tickets. Residents will gain intermediate knowledge and skills in an immersive hands-on experience learning curriculum.

Automation Product Training

Product: OPS/MVS

Prerequisite: Mainframe Foundations, System Programmer Foundations, or opt-out by passing the Qualification Test

The Vitality Resident will spend 5 weeks getting trained on the OPS/MVS automation product. Residents will gain intermediate knowledge and skills in an immersive hands-on experience learning curriculum and once complete, be able to work in an OPS/MVS shop to develop automations.

DevOps Product Training

Product: Endevor

Prerequisite: Mainframe Foundations, System Programmer Foundations, or opt-out by passing the Qualification Test

The Vitality Resident will spend 6 weeks learning how to implement the software change management lifecycle and manage post-implementation operations. Residents will gain intermediate knowledge and skills in an immersive hands-on experience learning curriculum.

Banrisul Bank Upskills 17 Associates with the Vitality Program

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2024 Brandon Hall Excellence Award Winner

With a proven track record of success, the Vitality Program was awarded Brandon Hall’s 2024 Excellence Award as ‘Best Unique of Innovative Talent Management Program’ for driving positive and organizational outcomes for both customers and new-to-mainframe learners alike. Being a multiyear winner of the Brandon Hall award is an honor that underscores our ongoing commitment to fostering mainframe talent and helping our customers in their workforce resiliency journeys.

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Vitality wins LaunchCode 2024 Stellar Enduring Employer Award

LaunchCode’s Employer Partner Award celebrates companies leading the way in innovative tech hiring, driving change by championing non-traditional talent pipelines.

Vitality Resident Experiences

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Vitality Program Training Schedule

Location	Course	Dates	Duration
Australia	Mainframe Foundations	January 2025	7 Weeks
	System Programmer Foundations	March 2025	5 Weeks
	Product Training	April 2025	4-6 Weeks
	Residency at Customer Location Begins	July 2025	3-6 Months
North America	Mainframe Foundations	May 2025	7 Weeks
	System Programmer Foundations	July 2025	5 Weeks
	Product Training	August 2025	4-6 Weeks
	Residency at Customer Location Begins	October 2025	3-6 Months
EMEA	Mainframe Foundations	August 2025	7 Weeks
	Product Training	October 2025	4-6 Weeks

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“Finding a new Mainframer can involve a great deal of time, money, and training. With Broadcom shouldering the cost and training of a new Mainframer, our team was able to focus on coaching the Vitality resident specifically in our Mainframe environment.”

Rocco Alonzi AVP Data Center Operations and Network Architecture | Manulife

“We recently had 17 associates complete Broadcom’s Vitality Program. Building Mainframe skills in this manner creates a resilient workforce for Banrisul. We’re proud of the tangible skills and knowledge gained from the program.”

Adilson Silveira de Souza Executive Manager | Banrisul

“From my vantage point, I can see that Broadcom really cares about the industry and the space. They're really keen on trying to make sure that the platform, the environment, and the ecosystem works as intended. They're really pushing together to make sure that staff is adequately trained in the space at their expense to make sure that there are future leaders in the industry that can support the products and support necessary changes needed in the future.”

Mainframe Vitality Program

Vitality: Bridging Talent and Opportunity

The Journey to Become a Mainframer

Mainframe Foundations & Product Training

Vitality Residency Program Focus Areas

Open to both Broadcom Vitality Residents and customer employees

Mainframe Foundations

System Programmer Foundations

Database Product Training

Security Product Training

Automation Product Training

DevOps Product Training

Banrisul Bank Upskills 17 Associates with the Vitality Program

2024 Brandon Hall Excellence Award Winner

Discover the Vitality Program Difference

Vitality wins LaunchCode 2024 Stellar Enduring Employer Award

Vitality Resident Experiences

Vitality Program Training Schedule

Learn More About Vitality

Select your skills of interest:

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