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 ...

The latest trends in software development from the Computer Weekly Application Developer Network. This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Mark Cresswell in his ...

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” ...

A lot has changed at Compuware Corp. since its sale to private equity firm Thoma Bravo LLC for $2.4 billion last year. The mainframe software maker drastically cut release cycles as part of an ...

AI thrives on data but feeding it the right data is harder than it seems. As enterprises scale their AI initiatives, they face the challenge of managing diverse data pipelines, ensuring proximity to ...

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 ...

It was a regular school night for UNT student Anna McKee when she arrived at her apartment and began to check her e-mails. It only took a couple clicks for her to realize that this semester would be ...

IBM will spend $100 million over the next five years to make its mainframe line easier to administer and program, the company said Wednesday. IBM's decades-old mainframe lineage, called System z and ...

Large organizations still rely on ageing IT systems and programming languages to run their mainframes. But as traditional developers reach retirement age, new hires are reluctant to pick up old skills ...