For many, the mainframe is the face of the technology industry. Yet, it is the sexier cousins, such as cloud computing, software-as-a-service (SaaS) and mobile gaming apps that bathe in the media ...

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 ...

Existing mainframe programmers are retiring at an alarming rate and the workforce is not being replenished. Moving off the mainframe is far from the most optimal solution.

“Despite the fact that [mainframe] apps are core to so many large businesses, to newer programmers there’s not as much sizzle in learning mainframe programming,” Vallely says.

IBM TechXchange — The Open Mainframe Project, an open source initiative that enables collaboration across the mainframe community to develop shared tool sets and resources, today announces two ...

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 ...

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 ...

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CA announced the scholarship program in March 2011 as part of its workforce education effort, committing more than $1 million in grants for recipients to attend the Mainframe Academy through 2016.