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” ...

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 ...

Mainframes are still widely in use at banks, insurance companies, and other big businesses that handle lots of credit card transactions. You might think of the mainframe computer as long-gone relic of ...

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 ...

You might think of the mainframe computer as long-gone relic of the Cold War. But banks, especially, still rely on modern versions of the old classic: They're huge ...

Rocket Software, Inc. announced the availability of 30 free open source tools and languages for IBM z Systems mainframes that allow programmers to work on mainframe computers without knowing COBOL or ...

If the mainframe is to be re-born as an enterprise transaction engine and data store in a cloud and AI-enabled world, it really needs to build a hybrid skills base that has a foot in both worlds.

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IBM z/OS 3.2 will be the cornerstone of the z17 mainframe and includes support for the Big Iron's new AI acceleration technologies. IBM today introduced the next release of z/OS, which promises to ...

Something is rotten in the state of software application development. Okay perhaps not so much rotten, but there are a number of issues certainly fermenting with some pungency. As the so-called ...

Some mainframe programming knowledge might translate into learning Java. First, what do you know about object-oriented programming (OOP)? If your mainframe development has been restricted to ...