My possibly ill-informed opinion on the mainframe developer market
#zOS work has so many barriers
- Can't run it locally. Only 1 training program at IBM for terminal access.
- The only mainframe code you can run locally is MVS from the early 1980s
- GNUCobol is probably not like modern IBM Cobol
- Microfocus appears to be in financial crisis and you can't even get a trial license compiler, let alone a personal license compiler
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