There’s a problem in IT. All the older guys (sadly, not enough of them were women) who knew how to get their hands dirty inside the mainframe systems of the past are either no longer with us or are ...

The work is fulfilling, the tools are state-of-the-art, and demand for mainframe-literate developers has never been greater If you’re an ambitious developer, you probably tend to follow industry buzz ...

As students study other technologies, vendors try to develop new talent and offer tools to fill the gap for these critical systems Before tablets, smartphones, and PCs became prominent, “big iron” ...

Tom Jodel, who is himself a programmer, interviewed his mother, who works as an IBM mainframe COBOL programmer at a major bank, about banking systems. Jodel's mother started in-house training at ...

LAS VEGAS, Oct. 21, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM TechXchange — The Open Mainframe Project, an open source initiative that enables collaboration across the mainframe community to develop shared tool sets ...

Frank is a social media journalist for the CDW family of technology magazine websites. A record number of students from around the world competed in IBM’s latest Master the Mainframe contest, and ...

BOSTON — Cheap little servers handle so much of the Internet’s dirty work that giant computers known as mainframes, which debuted 50 years ago and often cost more than $1 million, are supposed to be ...

A lot has changed at Compuware Corp. since its sale to private equity firm Thoma Bravo LLC for $2.4 billion last year. The mainframe software maker drastically cut release cycles as part of an ...

While the use of cloud-based systems for business enterprises continues to increase, not all IT infrastructure and systems can be based in the cloud. Mainframe systems programmers are still needed to ...

Specifically with mainframes, LLMs perform comparatively poorly at reading and writing mainframe code because there is very little data for them to train on. Zorse aims to solve these challenges by ...