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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 ...

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 ...

Micro Focus, a provider of enterprise application modernization, released a solution designed to accelerate IBM mainframe application delivery. Enterprise Developer for IBM zEnterprise is intended to ...

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 ...

To many in this PC/client-server age of computing, the idea of using a mainframe computer in business seems like using a sledgehammer to swat a fly–it might work, but why deal with all that cumbersome ...

Flashback to the late 1980s, when PCs are beginning to arrive at the government agency where this pilot fish works — and not just on users’ desks. “I got a call from a mainframe programmer whose PC ...

Authors Grady Hendrix and Jennifer Roberson sue Apple, alleging it used pirated books from Books3 to train its AI without consent or payment. American company will pay the sum to settle authors’ ...