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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Compuware expects 40 percent of today’s 2 million Cobol programmers — a key segment of mainframe programmers — to retire in the coming years.

Compuware estimates that as many as 40% of the world's mainframe programmers will be retiring in the near future. The looming shortage has forced mainframe companies such as Compuware, IBM and CA ...

Hiring Kit: Mainframe Systems Programmer 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.

We stay up on new languages, frameworks, and architectures yet ignore the value of mainframe applications. Mainframes manage 70% of the world’s transactions yet its programmer workforce is ...

Compuware Workbench is a suite of development tools designed to ease the application development and maintenance burden faced by mainframe shops.

Brian Vance, a 30-year-old mainframe programmer at Grange Insurance in Columbus, Ohio, started at the company five years ago, maintaining and updating old Cobol code.