I got an early-morning laugh out of this post on Timothy Sipple's Mainframe blog: Will the popular press ever get it right about mainframe-hosted applications? I'm still waiting, after seeing this one ...

Experts are predicting a mainframe skills shortage in five years’ time as aging IT professionals begin retiring in large numbers. However, while speakers at the American Federation of Computer ...

Ever wondered how to fix a system built in the days when winding memory by hand was the next big life skill? Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens in a new window) Share on ...

I look back at my mainframe days very fondly. Hired to be a GIS code monkey on VM/SP, I would up also managing our machine, applying PUTs and even performing the upgade from VM/SP 5 to VM/SP 6--heady ...