With a shortage of Cobol programming talent looming in the next decade and a clear need for greater software agility and lower operating costs, IT organizations have begun to make transition plans for ...

AI adoption is accelerating among mainframe users, and it’s spurring increased usage of the big iron platform, according to ...

“He taught me all the basics about mainframes, a little bit of [Job Control Language] and Assembler, and machine code and all that good stuff,” she says.

Sabre Holdings Corp., the air-travel software company, has an ambitious set of objectives for the remake of its “shopping engine,” a 25-year-old mainframe application with 10 million lines of ...

At the heart of Union Pacific Corp.’s railroad operations is an IBM mainframe-based transportation control system that’s been chugging along like a hardworking locomotive for nearly 40 years.

The federal student loan service center Campus Partners, an offshoot of Sallie Mae, wanted to revamp its mainframe systems to make loan data accessible to customers via the Web. With millions of lines ...

IBM later this week will unveil a version of Websphere Application Server Version 6.0 with new capabilities designed to take advantage of the company’s zSeries of mainframes. The new version, for the ...

A short while ago, I wrote an article discussing a recent BMC-sponsored study that focused upon mainframe use within enterprises. This study came to the conclusion that mainframe use is likely to ...