Comments on: Mainframe to SAP

By: meandyou

meandyou — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 16:45:47 +0000

If you do not know what a mainframe is and you don’t know what SAP is then I suggest you don’t “get into that field.”

How can people think that with a 10 second definition of something they can make a decision about their career? It boggles my mind.

By: asathhere

asathhere — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 09:08:04 +0000

Can anyy one pls tell watt is Mainframe?? wat is SAP???
im dng ece final yearr??? i just wna knww whcc course or whc fielld best fr me plss suggest and help me?? i hve intrstd in both network n software field???

By: rajmainframe

rajmainframe — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 09:55:36 +0000

Hi,

Iam a mainframes developer having 4+ yrs of experience. I would like to shift to SAP. Please suggest which module is best for me.

Thanks in Advance,
Raj

By: bss123

bss123 — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 14:12:55 +0000

I fully agree with everyone else. Take this opportunity to expand your skill base, particularly outside of the mainframe environment. Use every chance you can get to learn about all areas of SAP (functional areas as well as ABAP and Basis). The more you know and have experience with, the more valuable you will be. The mainframe background is also a plus – gives you a good programming foundation, and there may be opportunities for interfaces to/from mainframe. Our company was actually looking for someone with both Cobol experience and ABAP background because we are a small shop and need people to cover many technical areas, and interface to/from the two platforms.

By: allie

allie — Sun, 26 Mar 2006 17:20:36 +0000

Harriett responds:

I can’t believe this question is even being asked. Do you want to stay with a legacy system and probably have to find a new line of work when COBOL is no longer used (and this could be in the next minute or two) or do you want to have a skill that will pay big bucks and put you on a short list of highly desired programmers? A lot of people would kill for SAP training, including me.

By: craigmullins

craigmullins — Mon, 20 Mar 2006 11:41:11 +0000

Working with SAP and ABAP is a fantastic opportunity for you. SAP is the number one ERP vendor and it is running at many companies. Furthermore, SAP is a client/server application and one of the server platforms it supports is the mainframe. So, the combination of SAP along with your mainframe skills can make you quite employable. If I were you, I’d jump at the chance.

By: twometrebill

twometrebill — Mon, 20 Mar 2006 08:51:27 +0000

As a recently retired employee of one of the world’s largest consultancies (over 100,000 employees), our demand for SAP exceeded our demand for your skills by at least a factor of 100. (That is NOT an exaggeration.) But to be really valuable, you should expand beyond pure SAP technical skills to develop your industry and business skills. Use a SAP technical job to open the door but learn as much as you can about the industry to which the SAP application is being applied.