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 ...

Mainframes have relied on Cobol and assembler as their programming languages. But these days, not a lot of people are teaching these languages or mainframe management, Semerjian says.

There’s a problem in IT. All the older guys (sadly, not enough of them were women) who know how to get their hands dirty inside the mainframe systems of the past are retiring. That would be okay ...

IBM TechXchange — The Open Mainframe Project, an open source initiative that enables collaboration across the mainframe community to develop shared tool sets and resources, today announces two ...

Compuware launches DevOps initiative to revive mainframe programming - SiliconANGLEISPW’s software will enable Compuware to automate most of everything from deploying to maintaining big iron ...

For many, the mainframe is the face of the technology industry. Yet, it is the sexier cousins, such as cloud computing, software-as-a-service (SaaS) and mobile gaming apps that bathe in the media ...

Mainframe programming is decidedly un-sexy in the IT industry. But as the baby boomers skilled in maintaining mainframes retire, there is heightened demand for IT graduates to replace them, says ...

Over time, as staff members who have knowledge of mainframe programming languages retire, it becomes prohibitively expensive to find personnel with the requisite knowledge to work with the machines.

Despite numerous predictions to the contrary over the past 10 years, mainframes are still a going concern. In fact, changes such as the Internet, e-business and Linux, which were meant to render ...

It seems the mainframe programmer intended to edit CONFIG.SYS or AUTOEXEC.BAT, but instead used the Edlin text editor to edit COMMAND.COM, saw a screen full of hex gibberish and, instead of ...