Hi everyone,

I'm hoping to get some advice from you mainframe folks. I've been working in mainframe production support for six years, and I'm ready for a change. I'm interested in exploring new technologies and leveraging my existing skills in a new area. Based on your experience, what fields do you think would be a good fit? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!

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Actually I am also facing the same dilemma

I have been to onsite etc., worked on support , dev, optimisation, migration etc thw whole shindig in current mainframe scenarios

As I understood, three options are there leaving out usual managerial way

1) learn cloud and go digital transformation expert

2) learn ML and do mainframes modernisation specialist way using ML for optimisation, migration etc patterns

3) become a Individual Contributor as a senior mainframe professional in Client or Consulting side

But , in all honesty, all three are not well established ways to get good guidance and do planning which is the same issue i am also facing

We cant apply jobs on Linked in for abive ways … not that Linked in is very useful these days

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