The federal student loan service center Campus Partners, an offshoot of Sallie Mae, wanted to revamp its mainframe systems to make loan data accessible to customers via the Web. With millions of lines ...

Swiss startup LzLabs has exited ‘stealth mode’ at CeBIT exhibition in Hanover to reveal what it calls the world’s first Software Defined Mainframe. The product enables IT administrators to run ...

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 ...

Some of the most critical business systems run by US government agencies are older than many of the IT people who support them, written in mainframe assembler code or COBOL. That might not shock or ...

IBM is developing a generative artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted software development tool to help its customers modernise legacy Cobol applications, The new tool, watsonx Code Assistant for Z, ...

Abstract: Legacy software systems, written in outdated languages like MUMPS and mainframe assembly, pose challenges in efficiency, maintenance, staffing, and security. While LLMs offer promise for ...

Unfortunately, those programs don’t play well with today’s distributed systems, and the amount of legacy code at companies such as Sabre Holdings Corp. in Southlake, Tex., makes a rewrite a huge ...