IBM is killing off a mainframe coding toolkit for PCs and withdrawing all support, directing developers to instead use a cloud-hosted environment for dev and test purposes.… In a notice issued on ...

There are hundreds of billions of lines of COBOL code running on production systems worldwide. That’s not ideal for a language over 60 years old and whose primary architects are mostly retired or dead ...

Mainframe workload modernization startup Mechanical Orchard Inc. said it’s hoping to gain more enterprise traction today after closing on a $24 million early-stage funding round led by Emergence ...

IBM Corp. said today it’s using its recently announced generative artificial intelligence service watsonx to help enterprises modernize their most business-critical mainframe applications. Watsonx ...

New z/XDC software expansion improves accessibility and integrates into existing workflows while welcoming a new generation of programmers into mainframing Izzi Software, owner of ColeSoft, the ...

Companies just can't quit mainframes. While cloud infrastructure hogs the spotlight, mainframe systems continue to dominate major segments of the economy, especially those that require ...