Newly contributed to the Open Mainframe Project, the zopen community is a global community dedicated to making a modern collection of popular open source tools available for z/OS. They aim to make ...

And so, Marge Hoogeboom became a remote software development pioneer. She continued to work remotely for GE for several years ...

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 ...

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 ...

No more. A new generation of mainframe devops tools now provide the same graphical look and feel you’d expect from any other tool that plugs into an Eclipse IDE. These new mainframe tools also ...

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 ...

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 ...