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 ...

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” ...

Millennials make up more than half of the mainframe workforce as generative AI workloads proliferate on the platform, ...

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— -- They are the dinosaurs of the computer industry. But anyone who thinks mainframe computers are going the way of typewriters and videocassette recorders is in for a surprise. "Big Iron," as ...

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 ...

The mainframe, long the backbone of enterprise computing, is enjoying a surge of support as modernization projects bear fruit ...

A month after introducing the latest generation of its mainframe systems, the Z9, IBM is looking to grow the software support and expertise around it. At the Share Inc. user conference in Boston this ...

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 ...