Courses

The DevOps Acceleration Team (DAT) offers free courses that are beneficial to learners who want to increase their DevOps skills in a holistic and engaging manner. The available courses are a mix of self-paced and remote instructor-led courses, and cover a variety of topics for different roles. An IBM®-issued Credly badge is awarded to the learner upon successful completion of each course.

• Self-paced courses: These courses can be taken at your own pace, whenever it is convenient for you.
• Remote instructor-led courses: Instruction occurs with a remote class and instructor over web conference on a set schedule, offering interaction opportunities.

For a CI/CD learning plan organized by role, you can check out DevOps Transformations for IBM zSystems™ and CICD pipelines with DBB Git.

Below, you will find courses organized by where in the IBM Z® DevOps transformation journey a customer would typically first encounter the product(s) covered in that course. You can learn more about each course by clicking on its hyperlinked course title. While these courses are primarily targeted towards enabling end user developers, additional roles that can benefit are called out under each course category.

1. Learn to code and develop in a modern integrated development environment

• IBM Developer for z/OS® (IDz): The IBM Developer for z/OS (IDz) basics course is self-paced and designed to provide the audience with an introduction to IDz, a modern integrated development environment (IDE) for Z development.

• DevOps Distance Learning Program: This remote instructor-led course provides an interactive learning experience with both entry-level and deeper-dive focus sessions for IDz and other useful tools in the larger IBM Application Delivery Foundation for z/OS (ADFz) product suite.

Related role(s): IDE specialist

2. Gain insights into your z/OS applications with analysis tooling

• IBM Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence Essentials: This self-paced course introduces IBM Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence (ADDI), an analytical platform for z/OS application modernization.
  • Further reading: The ADDI Accelerator contains materials and resources designed to help customers accelerate their adoption of ADDI and enable their organizations to successfully deploy this analysis and discovery tool.

Related role(s): Architect, IDE specialist

3. Use an intelligent build tool to compile and link your z/OS applications

• IBM Dependency Based Build Fundamentals: This self-paced course provides the audience with an introduction to building mainframe applications in a DevOps pipeline with IBM Dependency Based Build (DBB).

Related role(s): Build specialist

4. Streamline quality assurance with IBM Z testing tools

• IBM Z DevOps Testing Fundamentals: This self-paced course is designed to teach how z/OS application developers can shift-left and accelerate testing using IBM Z DevOps testing tools such as ZUnit, a powerful unit testing framework specifically tailored for testing z/OS applications and mainframe environments.

Related role(s): Testing specialist

5. Modernize with cloud native DevOps tooling

• Cloud native development with IBM Z and Cloud Modernization Stack Fundamentals: This self-paced course introduces IBM Wazi for Red Hat® OpenShift Dev Spaces (IBM Wazi), a cloud native productive development environment that fully integrates with any enterprise-wide standard DevOps pipeline.

Related role(s): Architect, Build specialist, Pipeline specialist, Deployment specialist, IDE specialist, Testing specialist