In modern programming, an integrated development environment (IDE) is often used, but in mainframe programming, a tool called ISPF , which can almost be called an OS, is used.

The work is fulfilling, the tools are state-of-the-art, and demand for mainframe-literate developers has never been greater If you’re an ambitious developer, you probably tend to follow industry ...

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 ...

IBM TechXchange — The Open Mainframe Project, an open source initiative that enables collaboration across the mainframe community to develop shared tool sets and resources, today announces two ...

Compuware launches DevOps initiative to revive mainframe programming - SiliconANGLEISPW’s software will enable Compuware to automate most of everything from deploying to maintaining big iron ...

I'm going to be starting college close to the end of next year so i was trying to figure out what area of computer technology i wanted to really delve into.So i started doing searches on mainframe ...

“Despite the fact that [mainframe] apps are core to so many large businesses, to newer programmers there’s not as much sizzle in learning mainframe programming,” Vallely says.

This was the start of the programming language COBOL (generation 3). The COBOL programming language was very similar to a normal (English) language and for those who took the time, it really was (and ...

The challenge with legacy mainframes is not COBOL, but the outdated infrastructure and lack of skilled professionals to maintain them.