Broadcom’s Mainframe Vitality Program is an innovative skills development program to cultivate next-gen mainframe talent at low to no cost. Broadcom partners with organizations to attract, grow and retain talent to help manage the mainframe in the hybrid datacenter.
Meet the Mainframers of the FutureWhen faced with a lean mainframe staff, low budget and dozens of subsystems to manage, it is challenging to make time for training. In addition, key mainframe talent is retiring, and qualified replacements are not readily available.
Broadcom designed the Vitality Program to leverage our expertise and training assets in partnership with our customers to transfer product, technical, and industry knowledge together to cultivate new mainframe skilled resources.
How to Get StartedThrough Broadcom's investment, a Vitality Resident will embark on a multi-dimensional learning journey starting with training on mainframe fundamentals and Broadcom products, with experts mentoring them along the way. Next, they will partner on-site with the customer to learn their environment and unique business applications. Upon completion, the Resident is ready to start their career as a Mainframer.
Prerequisite: None
A 6-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.
Prerequisite: Mainframe Fundamentals or equivalent experience
This 7-week program blends learning soft and technical skills. Soft skills are focused on self and teams collaboration, introducing Agile project management. Hands-on workshops enable residents to understand the environment where they will be working. Additional skills are learned by introducing Design Thinking and User Experience demonstrating how customer specific products are built.
Product: Datacom, IDMS
Prerequisite: Mainframe Fundamentals, Blended Learning, or equivalent experience
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.
Product: ACF2, Top Secret
Prerequisite: Mainframe Fundamentals, Blended Learning or equivalent experience
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.
Product: OPS/MVS
Prerequisite: Mainframe Fundamentals, Blended Learning or equivalent experience
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.
Product: Endevor
Prerequisite: Mainframe Fundamentals, Blended Learning or equivalent experience
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.
Location | Course | Dates | Duration |
North America (Cohort 7) |
Mainframe Foundations | January 2024 | 7 Weeks |
System Programmer Foundations | March 2024 | 5 Weeks | |
Product Training | April 2024 | 4-6 Weeks | |
Residency at Customer Location Begins | June 2024 | 3-6 Months | |
North America (Cohort 8) |
Mainframe Foundations | July 2024 | 7 Weeks |
System Programmer Foundations | Sept 2024 | 5 Weeks | |
Product Training | October 2024 | 4-6 Weeks | |
Residency at Customer Location Begins | January 2025 | 3-6 Months | |
EMEA | Mainframe Foundations | August 2024 | 7 Weeks |
Product Training | October 2024 | 4-6 Weeks |