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Interskill Learning's Mainframe Training Newsletter has Arrived!

The Interskill e-Newsletter is a FREE bi-annual newsletter. Each issue contains useful training tips, information on leading industry trends, and insightful advice to help you get the most from your mainframe training investment. Sign up to receive the mainframe training newsletter via email as soon it is released, or click here for the latest newsletter available. Inside the latest issue: Interskill Learning New Releases Pervasive Encryption – Why is IBM making a big thing about it? Vendor Briefs Tech-head Knowledge Test Learning Spotlight – Blockchain Fundamentals Management: DASD Mirroring Part 3: Putting a Solution Together Management: A Different Set of Goalposts for Application MQ Performance

New and Updated Courses Released this Quarter

BMC Curriculum - NEW We have updated our entire BMC curriculum. The Control-M curriculum introduces this product, describing its role in today’s data processing environment. It describes how job definitions are used to schedule jobs for processing, providing in-depth details of parameters used for job scheduling, prerequisites, and post-processing.   Note: The previous 3 BMC courses will be retired on June 1, 2018. Introduction to CONTROL-M for z/OS Defining and Scheduling Jobs Using Control-M for z/OS Monitoring and Managing Job Processing DevOps and Agile Curriculum - NEW Course The Agile Fundamentals course discusses the business value of adopting an Agile philosophy, introducing a real-life software development project, and describing how Agile is used to restructure traditional software development and deployment tasks. Agile Fundamentals Cryptography Curriculum - NEW We have added a new curriculum with the addition of a new Cryptography course. This cours...

Free Prize Draw to see U2 live in Dublin

    To promote Interskill Learning’s role in the IBM Open Badge Program, we are running a Free Prize Draw to see U2 live in Dublin, Ireland at the 3 Arena on 6th November 2018, plus TWO Airfares & 3 nights luxury accommodation!   If you have earned two or more, Z Mainframe specific IBM Open Badges  (tagged “POWERED BY INTERSKILL LEARNING”) before July 31, 2018, you can enter the draw via this form  www.interskill.com/U2/enter.html   Before entering, please read the full Terms and Conditions at  www.interskill.com/u2/contestrules.html   Winner will be drawn at 4pm (GMT) on August 1st, 2018 at Interskill Learning UK's offices! Entry into this prize draw is subject to the rules and conditions referred to below: NO PURCHASE IS NECESSARY TO ENTER THIS PRIZE DRAW. Any person wishing to enter the Prize Draw can do so. Please refer to full rules and conditions at  www.interskill.com/u2/contestrules.html . Certain exclusions...

We've Done It Again! New Courses Released!

Interskill Learning has recently released new courses! Qualified students on the Interskill LMS, please make sure to enroll for these new courses and expand your knowledge and skills. Interskill Learning is constantly providing up-to-date training on the newest Mainframe Technologies. The three new UNIX System Services courses below make up a new IBM Open Badge. Machine Learning and Spark Introduction to Sampling Performance Tools Java on z/OS for Java Programmers z/OS UNIX System Services - Basics Interacting with the z/OS UNIX System Working with z/OS UNIX Introduction to the IBM Z Mainframe Get more details at https://www.interskill.com/recently-released.html

New Blockchain Fundamentals Course +Blockchain IBM Badge

A new course - “Blockchain Fundamentals” has been added to our curriculum of 250+ Interskill z Mainframe elearning courses. You can also earn an official “Blockchain Foundations” IBM Credential badge by completing this course. Remember as a student account holder of Interskill Learning you receive access to new and updated courses throughout the year. Be sure to login to your Interskill Learning Account and take advantage of this new course and IBM Badge. Blockchain Fundamentals Course Details - Introduction to Blockchain - Embracing Blockchain - How Blockchain works - Blockchain Fundamentals Mastery Test Superior Quality course content, teamed with the delivery benefits of cutting edge HTML5 elearning technology, offers high levels of interactivity, immersive graphics, engaging animations and is now MOBILE FRIENDLY! More information at www.interskill.com

New and Updated Courses Released by Interskill Learning

The entire CICS curriculum has been updated to version 5.3! These courses contain many new features and training benefits for CICS operators and programmers. We have also added 4 new assessments to our collection for PL/I and COBOL. As always, existing students receive these courses with their qualifying license/subscription. Be sure to enroll for this new curriculum when you login to the Learning Management System training portal. CICS TS Operations Series CICS TS - Introduction CICS - Explorer Fundamentals CICS TS - Controlling CICS Operations CICS Command Simulations   CICS TS Programmers Series CICS - Programming Basics Program Control and Communication Files and Databases Storage and Transient Data Programming for Web Access Using CICS Transaction Gateway CICS Terminal Communications Using SDF II To Maintain CICS TS Maps Programming for Recovery Debugging CICS Programs New Assessments COBOL Basics Assessment COBOL Advanced Assessment ...