IBM zStudent Contest

IBM is a longstanding leader in environmental sustainability and the IBM z16 was designed to make a powerful improvement in sustainability intentional and by design. The features on the z16 enable a smaller energy footprint by reducing costs in every aspect. The zSystems machine performances reduce overall system power consumption, require less floor space and reduce CO2 emissions compared to an x86 server.

To go along with the zSystems machines sustainability, this contest is focused on using your skills on IBM zSystems to meet the sustainability goal of identifying, locating and acquiring the components of a fuel cell to power your zMobile.

Earning the IBM Z Xplore Concepts Badge will set contestants up to be successful for the contest and collect the fuel cells parts in the most sustainable way.

Through completion of Fundamentals and Concepts levels (how you earn the Concepts Badge), contestants will have skills in:

• VS Code
• JCL
• Files and Members
• Unix System Services (USS)
• REXX
• Python

Additional skills that will set a contestant apart and help place them as a contest finalist are:

• Databases
• APIs
• Programming Interfaces
• Coordinating tasks and services across a hybrid environment

If you do not have these skills yet, take the time to do your research. It is okay to not know everything while completing the contest. Part of the challenge of the contest is to use your resources.