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” ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

— -- 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 ...

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 ...

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Authors Grady Hendrix and Jennifer Roberson sue Apple, alleging it used pirated books from Books3 to train its AI without consent or payment. American company will pay the sum to settle authors’ ...

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 ...