Last summer, Michael Vu, a 40-year-old independent IT consultant, found himself in a wholly unexpected place midway through his career. He’d signed a three-week contract to help a major U.S. retailer ...

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 ...

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LAS VEGAS, Oct. 21, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM TechXchange — The Open Mainframe Project, an open source initiative that enables collaboration across the mainframe community to develop shared tool sets ...

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For decades the rapidly ageing COBOL developer population has been kept in work looking after mainframes with legacy code so old they make Enigma look like a spring chicken. COBOL has been running ...

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Remember how we keep hearing that mainframe technologies are still around? It’s almost as if the popularization of the cloud computing model has allowed us to talk ...

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