With a shortage of Cobol programming talent looming in the next decade and a clear need for greater software agility and lower operating costs, IT organizations have begun to make transition plans for ...

Sabre Holdings Corp., the air-travel software company, has an ambitious set of objectives for the remake of its “shopping engine,” a 25-year-old mainframe application with 10 million lines of ...

Kristine Harper was a high school senior when she took her first mainframe class. Six years later she’s a professional mainframe programmer and platform evangelist to young people beginning their IT ...

Recently, I mentioned the results of a BMC-sponsored survey that suggested that enterprises weren't running away from their mainframe-based solutions. But representatives from TmaxSoft suggested that ...

Some twenty-five hundred to three thousand years ago, a young man named David slew a giant called Goliath. For that he was made king. When it comes to Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity (DRBC), ...

At the heart of Union Pacific Corp.’s railroad operations is an IBM mainframe-based transportation control system that’s been chugging along like a hardworking locomotive for nearly 40 years.