Trust me, you don not want to mess with mainframe programming. There is too much overhead just to get a program to run.

It is the programming languages that support them, such as Java and C++, that attract bright young developers. Writing applications for a mainframe somehow does not have the same cachet as working for ...

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.

Farhaz Thobani is the president of Kyndryl Canada. Kyndryl is an international IT infrastructure services provider. The mainframe is the original enterprise computing platform. Over its 60-year ...

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 ...

These are concepts that have been nailed in the mainframe world since the Franco-Indian war. Mainframers can tell you within 10% how much storage they will need next year, based on 57 years of ...

Even if you're not a mainframe shop, the idea of a central point of management and control is very alluring, as management is increasingly the key to reducing both costs and risk. IT has gone ...