Mainframe Training Products by Interskill Learning

21st Century Mainframe Training for your 21st Century Mainframe Workforce!

Mainframe Learning Products and Services

Modern mainframe workforce training programs “blend” a globally deliverable array of components, including hundreds of on-demand mainframe elearning courses, hands-on mainframe sandbox lab exercises, mainframe coaching & mentoring, mainframe skills assessments, the training data reporting and analytics to optimize the training program, and the IBM Credentialing to provide essential recognition and motivation.

These blended mainframe workforce training programs offer year-round, on-demand, broad spectrum mainframe training that delivers optimal overall workforce engagement and performance, increased personnel retention, and fosters a priceless “culture of learning”!

Best of all, a modern blended mainframe training program is SIMPLER to manage and COSTS SIGNIFICANTLY LESS than traditional mainframe training courses alone.

“In the words of IBM Founder Thomas J. Watson, Sr.: “There is no saturation point in education.”

Interskill offers you a key set of digitally delivered mainframe training components that, teamed together, form the core of your overall mainframe workforce training program. The combination of Courses, Assessments, Hands-On Practice, Coaching and Mentoring, Training Structure, Guidance, Customization, Support and IBM Credentialing.

Here are those components in more detail:

Mainframe e-Learning Courses

The core of any Mainframe Workforce Training Program! Over 220 online Z Mainframe and Mainframe Related courses provide the broad spectrum training essential to today’s highly-skilled, multi-skilled mainframe computing workforce. You will have access to all courses with your subscription license.

Mainframe Training Sandbox Exercises

A broad array of all-inclusive, hands-on exercises available via a dedicated Training Sandbox on your own Mainframe System offers your organization an ultra-low-cost alternative to expensive, external, hands-on mainframe Labs, and a minimal-effort alternative to internally developed hands-on exercises!

Mainframe Coaching and Mentoring Toolbox

A broad array of tools that empower your busy senior mainframe personnel to be exceptional mainframe coaches and mentors while minimizing their required time and effort. Includes a Coaching & Mentoring Course, a Mainframe Class and Webinar Developer, Enhanced Learning Pathways, Sandbox Exercise Coach’s Notes and an LMS Communicator.

Mainframe Skills Assessments

The measurability so vital to an effective mainframe education solution. Extensive banks of mainframe focused, scenario-based questions enable an organization to accurately evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of their mainframe workforce. Having objective workforce skills data, mainframe workforce wide, is priceless!

Mainframe Learning Plans

Provide individuals with a graphical, defined plan of learning activity that lays the foundations for technical competence in their specific mainframe computing job role. Guides and motivates personnel to complete targeted, structured, mainframe training and achieve significant skill and knowledge gains every year.

Learning Management System(LMS)

Delivering on-demand, mainframe workforce training every minute of the day, every day of the year, everywhere in the world! Loaded with valuable learning features for mainframe personnel, and loaded with administration, reporting and analytics features for the administrators, coaches and mentors, and managers who guide, enhance and control mainframe workforce training

Training Data Reporting & Analytics

Comprehensive reporting and data analytics to turn valuable, objective, measured training data on your individuals, groups or your entire mainframe computing workforce into a treasure trove of information on competency and proficiency levels, human capital strengths and vulnerabilities, and training ROI calculations.

IBM Credentials

IBM recognizes Interskill’s mainframe training pedigree and now offers 50 official IBM Digital Credentials for Interskill course curricula completions. These coveted Digital Badges provide a recognized, respected and valued benchmark for IBM Z Mainframe knowledge and skills in the global Mainframe Computing Industry!

Learning Services

Each Interskill client has a dedicated Learning Consultant who works with you to maximize your mainframe workforce training results. Using our decades of experience with thousands of organizations worldwide, we help you set up the very best mainframe workforce training program and continue to work with you to internally market it and monitor it for optimal results.