MG Technologies - Products & Services

Training

General Information

MG Technologies provides a line of CICS and VSAM classes that are available in both on-site and public formats. Both on-site and public classes contain workshops and lab assignments. MG Technologies can provide customized on-site classes covering topics that you may select. Contact us for information concerning custom classes or if you want to be notified of public classes in your area.

Why Use MG Technologies For Your Training Needs ?

Experience

MG Technologies has been presenting classes since 1977. We are specialists who install, tune and use the software we teach. Each class illustrates examples and concerns obtained through our extensive experience. Unlike other training organizations we specialize in the software we teach.

Proven quality

Our highly acclaimed classes have been attended by thousands of individuals throughout the country. We are dedicated to class quality. Most of our business is generated through customer referrals.

Unusually comprehensive

Our classes are renowned for their extreme comprehensiveness. Each topic is thoroughly covered, not just "presented." Extensive illustrations, text, and examples are included in all classes.

Hands-on

Our on-site and public classes contain hands-on assignments. Every lab problem is designed to illustrate a practical application of the subject matter. Many classes contain several lab problems which are distributed as team assignments, this provides cross-training and improves student participation.

Free phone service

Students may get "rusty" from time to time. We encourage them to contact us for design and programming solutions. This invaluable service is provided to students for 1 year at no charge.

Up-to-date

Our experience installing and using CICS and VSAM on VSE and OS/390 allows us to create and continually enhance our course material using the latest information available.

Tailored

On-site classes can be adjusted to meet your specific requirements.

Low costs

We develop and produce all of our own class material. This keeps our quality high and your costs to a minimum. Since you are dealing directly with the instructor there are no hidden "contractor fees." If you have several students requiring a class, our on-site training can save you money.

Assembler, COBOL/VSE, COBOL OS/390

Classes can be taught in any of these languages. Class material and examples are adjusted to the language. We can also provide a multi-language version of any class.

Public training

Any individual may attend our classes. Our public classes are held at facilities around the country.

Sponsorship

Companies interested in on-site training may save money by making seats available to individuals of other organizations. See Other Information for more details.

Complete service

We provide excellent installation, tuning and documentation services for the software products we teach as well as other products.

Continued support

We routinely contact our clients to check on their progress and assist them.

We Provide the Most Comprehensive CICS Training Available!

Our classes include a wealth of up-to-date on-line design considerations and techniques developed from our extensive experience installing, tuning and designing CICS systems on OS/390 and VSE.

We take pride in teaching good design and coding habits. Our classes show programmers and designers how to improve:

Response times

Data integrity

Reliability

Maintainability

Flexibility

User friendliness

Usability

Clonability (a fact of life)

Our intensive 5 day CICS Command Level Programming class has evolved over the years to become known as one of the most comprehensive classes available . Students start to write, test and debug programs the first day! Thousands of CICS programmers have already benefited from this class. See CICS Programming for a full description of this class.

What other training organizations consider "tricks" or advanced techniques are standard in our classes.

And we don't stop there. Students may obtain technical assistance or design and programming solutions through our free CICS HOTLINE phone service for one year after attending any of our CICS classes.

Whether the students are new to CICS or well seasoned veterans, MG Technologies can greatly improve their design and programming skills by providing the best CICS training available.

With our 27 years of CICS training experience and over 20 classes to choose from, you and your staff can become experts.

We Provide the Fastest VSAM Training Available!

MG Technologies' VSAM training is designed to provide your staff with the most productive knowledge as quickly as possible. Our VSAM classes were developed using techniques from our many years of tuning and improving VSAM datasets for our customers who use VSE, VS/1, MVS/370, MVS/XA and ESA.

We'll illustrate how to:

Improve online response time

Improve batch run time

Reduce DASD and CPU utilization

Improve overall performance

Increase programmer and system productivity

Improve reliability and data integrity

Reduce errors

Establish proper standards and guidelines

Implement reliable high speed backups

Perform conversions easily

Our intensive 3 day VSAM Concepts and Tuning class is the only class available to take a student from an introduction to tuning in 3 days! Students can test what they have learned in the comprehensive workshop. We make VSAM simple. See VSAM Classes for descriptions of these classes.

Students may use our free VSAM HOTLINE phone service to discuss technical problems related to performance, design or programming for 1 year after attending any of our VSAM classes.

Consider these points when selecting VSAM training:

We have been teaching VSAM since 1978.
Our classes are extremely comprehensive for their short duration.
Our experience installing and tuning VSAM is brought into every class.

Selection Criteria

Instructor has been teaching CICS for over 26 years
Instructor has developed his own materials to ensure complete quality control
Instructor is systems, applications, and user oriented
Instructor can provide customized classes covering topics adjusted to specific requirements of client
Instructor has 27 years' experience in CICS installations and tuning
Instructor provides "Do's and Don'ts" developed from experience
Instructor is well known throughout the industry and has been a guest speaker throughout the country
Instructor provides students one year of telephone support at no charge
Instructor teaches at least 20 different CICS classes
Instructor teaches VSAM classes for systems and application programmers

Research has identified that despite the expanding number of technology-based training delivery methods, customers favor instructor-led delivery because it offers the benefit of student-teacher interaction. It has also proved to be the most cost-effective method for the training dollar, particularly if delivered at the customer site. *

* According to a Ledgeway/Dataquest report,
Education and Training: Market Analysis and Outlook