Mainframe

IBM turns to AI for mainframe modernisation 

IBM has published a new coding assistant built on its watsonx enterprise AI platform. Called Code Assistant for Z, the…

BT moves mainframe services to the cloud in deal with Kyndryl

BT is switching some of its mainframe applications to the cloud as part of a partnership with IBM spin-ff Kyndryl.…

AWS launches Mainframe Modernization to tempt more businesses to the cloud

Amazon's AWS public cloud division has today launched a new service to help businesses move their on-premises mainframe-based workloads to…

DWP Wraps Up Mammoth “Job Seeker’s” Mainframe to X86 Migration

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has successfully shifted its Job Seeker’s Allowance Payment System (JSAPS) from its mainframe…

“How the Heck did We Get Here?” Governor in Plea for COBOL Programmers

Trademark COBOL programmer smugness is once again in fashion (was it ever out?), after the governor of New Jersey made…

OpenShift is Now Generally Available on IBM Z. That’s Kind of a Big Deal…

Containers and mainframes are like chalk and cheese: the former, a way of letting code and all its dependencies run…

Mainframe Fears Grow: 93% Have “Serious Concerns” about their Big Iron

A massive 93 percent of respondents to a recent global survey on attitudes to mainframes expressed "serious concerns" about their…

IBM’s Latest Mainframe Loses Fat, Gains Muscle, Has a More Open Mind

IBM's latest mainframe has landed. The z15 mainframe is both slimmer and more muscular than its predecessor the z14, with…

IBM’s CTO, Cloud Platform Services, on “Cloud Paks”, Containers, Paas-Bashing and Mainframes

Dr Bala Rajaraman is an IBM fellow “on the engineering side of things” as he puts it, who has worked…

Swisscom Dumps Mainframes for Private Cloud – Cuts IT Costs 60%

A major Swiss telecommunications and IT provider has successfully moved all business critical legacy mainframe applications and data to x86…