Mainframe Development

Issued by Columbia School of Engineering

Validated by the Columbia School of Engineering, this mthree Certificate recognizes Mainframe training. The recipient will master TSO/ISPF, JCL, and programming using the COBOL language. The certification covers TSO/ISPF commands and navigation, how to code and execute JCL, and the structure of COBOL programs (data types & variable handling, built-in functions, conditional logic, and more).

Type Certification
Level Intermediate
Time Months

Skills

ANSI
COBOL Programming
Conditional Statement
Debugging
EBCDIC/ASCII
File Handling
JCL Statements
JOB EXEC DD
MVS, TSO ISPF
PERFORM Statement
Procedures
QSAM/VSAM/GDG
Utilities – IDCAMS/SORT

Earning Criteria

1) Successful completion of the mthree Junior Mainframe Developer course 2) Recipients earned this badge through completion of a training capstone assessment, which measured mastery of mthree Academy skill outcomes in using COBOL to create a program, writing structured codes, using JCL to execute and test COBOL programs and IBM utilities, navigate ISPF to support data set creation.