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 ...

There are few advantages to growing old, but if you were lucky enough to train, back in the hidden midst of times past, in programming languages COBOL or PL/I, you may have landed in later life into a ...

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 ...

This skills issue is just the latest idea peddled by those who claim that the mainframe is a shrinking dinosaur. As people in the industry know, however, mainframe use is continuing to grow in a ...

Classroom education is important for learning new technologies, but when it comes to learning a complex field like mainframe technology, there’s no replacement for the value of on-the-job training.

Who in their right mind would design a system that would allow a single terminal or PC, halfway around the world, to download or file transfer a complete consumer or federal database? And why is this ...

LzLabs, a mainframe migration software specialist based in Zurich, is coming to North America, where it has heard a few mainframes still exist, some rumored to lack source code or documentation.

Sixty years after the introduction of the first mainframe family, the IBM System/360, the monolithic computers remain in demand. As many as 89 percent of state CIOs reported relying on mainframes in ...

Hire the right mainframe systems programmer to maintain critical IT infrastructure. Ensure System Reliability – Mainframe systems programmers keep legacy on-premises servers running smoothly where ...