Compuware expects 40 percent of today’s 2 million Cobol programmers — a key segment of mainframe programmers — to retire in the coming years.

There’s a problem in IT. All the older guys (sadly, not enough of them were women) who know how to get their hands dirty inside the mainframe systems of the past are retiring. That would be okay ...

Existing mainframe programmers are retiring at an alarming rate and the workforce is not being replenished. Moving off the mainframe is far from the most optimal solution.

Compuware estimates that as many as 40% of the world's mainframe programmers will be retiring in the near future. The looming shortage has forced mainframe companies such as Compuware, IBM and CA ...

It is the programming languages that support them, such as Java and C++, that attract bright young developers. Writing applications for a mainframe somehow does not have the same cachet as working for ...

So are millennial programmers afraid of green screens and mainframes meaning that this product is something of a godsend? One camp will argues yes, speeding all routes to information access and ...

Hiring Kit: Mainframe Systems Programmer While the use of cloud-based systems for business enterprises continues to increase, not all IT infrastructure and systems can be based in the cloud.

BALTIMORE—As mainframe developers migrate from legacy systems to new languages and environments, PHP should be on the short list, said a longtime mainframe programmer who now helps others to ...