Tag: mainframe
DevOps is Making Gains on Mainframe Platforms
A survey from BMC found organizations continue to invest in mainframe applications alongside distributed computing environments ...
VS Code for Mainframe: The Enterprise Developer Tipping Point
With the free and open Code4z extension pack, VS Code is mainframe-ready and it's a great tool for mainframe developers ...
Convert COBOL Easily? Yes, Please!
IBM's preview of an AI tool to convert COBOL to Java has Don MacVittie cheering ...
IBM LLM AI: COBOL to Java ASAP ¦ ARM IPO is GO!
Richi Jennings | | ai, AI assistant, ARM, artificial intelligence, COBOL, Code Assistant, CodeNet, DevOps and mainframes, Devops for legacy, DevOps for mainframe, DevOps on mainframe, ibm, IPO, java, Java EE, legacy, legacy applications, legacy apps, legacy code, legacy environment, legacy IT, legacy mainframe applications, legacy modernization, Legacy Software, legacy system, legacy systems, LLM, LLMs, mainframe, mainframe computers, mainframe developer, mainframe developers, mainframe development, mainframe modernization, SoftBank, The Long ViewIn this week’s #TheLongView: Translating legacy COBOL code to a slightly more modern language, and Arm will go public (again) next month ...
Improving DevX Gives Your Business a Boost
As organizations transform and grow, different methodologies and development tools can come together, creating an extra level of complexity for your mainframe application development teams. In a perfect world, developers would be ...
Six Mainframe DevOps Predictions for 2023
DevOps, or the automation of application development and hand-off to operations, is more prevalent than ever on the mainframe. As we begin 2023, below are six predictions for what the coming year ...
FAA Ground Stop due to Technical Debt? | Don’t Do DIY Crypto!
Richi Jennings | | cryptography, database, devsecops, Don’t settle for what life gives you—make life better and build something, encryption, end to end, FAA, federal agencies, legacy, mainframe, NOTAM, privacy, risk, security, technical debt, The Long View, ThreemaIn this week’s #TheLongView: The FAA’s NOTAM database gets corrupted, and Threema shows why DIY encryption is bad ...
Saying Goodbye to Legacy Systems
Are you still using a rotary phone, tube television or Rolodex? Probably not. But if you were, you’d still be using newer technology than what many enterprises still rely on every day ...
Git for Mainframe: Back to the Future
Software delivery modernization should be done with care, especially with mission-critical mainframe apps. But for some, modernization will feel like a trip back to the future. Mainframe applications are typically systems of ...
BMC Integrates DevOps Mainframe Portfolio With Git
BMC has expanded its efforts to bring DevOps best practices to the development of mainframe applications by integrating the BMC Compuware ISPW continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform with Git repositories. In addition, ...
IBM ‘is Ageist and Sexist’ | IBM Mainframe-aaS | IBM Vaccine Mandate
Richi Jennings | | ageism, careers, cloud and mainframe, COVID-19, Devops for z/OS, Great Resignation, ibm, IBM Cloud, IBM Wazi, mainframe, mainframe security, remote working, The Long View, Those who know do not speak; those who speak do not know, WFH, work from home, z/OSIn this week’s The Long View: IBM’s employment practices get held up to scrutiny, IBM z/OSaaS breaks cover, and IBM encourages staff back to the office ...
The Role of APIs in Mainframe Modernization
Mainframes are historically clunky systems. They are incredibly secure and can process impressive calculations, yet they are complex to manage and challenging to extract data from. This reality is at odds with ...
