Technology change - Mainframe to Teradata - response (3) by anubha_harrison

Hi Saheel,

Even I started my career with mainframe but transformed later to ETL projects using Teradata. Currently I am completely into ETL and Warehousing eventhough all the projects made use of mainframe as the major data source. There is a huge advantage for a mainframe professionals as
 
i)  Major Banking and Insurance company has their majority of the source system data lying in mainframe. 

ii) Got an added advantage on decision making with respect to extraction, conversion and transformation.

iii) Hard to find resources atleast on two areas  

  a) Source system (Mainframe, UNIX, and database such as Oracle, SQL Server, DB2 ),  
  b) Warehouse (Databse such as Teradata  and ETL tools such as Informatica, Abinitio)
  c) Reporting (SAS, Cognos etc).

Most of the Warehouse / BI project flows on the above technology .

iv) Data extraction from mainframe is unique and hard comparing to the extraction from other databases as mainframe is EBCDIC based. Whereas huge projects makes use of Mainframe for handling the large volulme data. Hence mainframe professionals get and added advantage in having their finger prints into huge BI clients and projects

v) Knowledge on Schedulers, Version Control tools and transfer techniques (such as FTP, Connect Direct ) are side dishes for an ETL Specialist.

You can reach me at 9500074200 for any further assistance.