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 ...

Mainframe developers are not just retiring, they are expiring -- and young developers have little interest in mainframe careers. Mainframe programmers have be treated like bus drivers whose only job ...

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 buzz ...

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” ...

Mainframes are still widely in use at banks, insurance companies, and other big businesses that handle lots of credit card transactions. You might think of the mainframe computer as long-gone relic of ...

I'm going to be starting college close to the end of next year so i was trying to figure out what area of computer technology i wanted to really delve into.So i started doing searches on mainframe ...

Rocket Software, Inc. announced the availability of 30 free open source tools and languages for IBM z Systems mainframes that allow programmers to work on mainframe computers without knowing COBOL or ...

But even if offshore outsourcing isn't the answer, domestic companies, including services organizations like IBM Global Services and EDS, are faced with a limited amount of mainframe-trained talent ...

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 ...

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 The ...

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Some mainframe programming knowledge might translate into learning Java. First, what do you know about object-oriented programming (OOP)? If your mainframe development has been restricted to ...