In this week’s #TheLongView: Translating legacy COBOL code to a slightly more modern language, and Arm will go public (again) next month.
Improving Mainframe Agility With DevOps
Mainframe workloads were on the rise even before the coronavirus pandemic, and transaction-processing mainframes became vital as lockdowns went into effect and every aspect of business and personal life occurred online. Mainframes are reliable, secure, highly available and affordable, and it is essential for organizations to ensure their mainframe can achieve peak agility to enhance […]
Z is for Zowe – the Open Path to Mainframe DevOps
The energy and excitement in the IBM Z mainframe community during the two years since the announcement of Zowe have not been seen in a generation. By enabling mainframers to work like technologists who work on the cloud, mobile and distributed platforms, Zowe unlocks the power of DevOps for mainframers, ensuring the vitality of the […]
IBM Advances DevOps on the Mainframe
IBM has expanded its efforts to bring DevOps best practices to the mainframe by adding automated unit testing capabilities for CICS COBOL programs using Db2 to IBM Developer for z/OS (IDz) V14.2.1. The company is also making an instance of z/OS available within a Docker container that can be deployed on an x86 platform. Sanjay […]