Three ways to make mainframe applications, the proven engines of business, more adaptable to a changing, AI-infused world For leaders running mission-critical mainframe applications, the lifeblood of their businesses, the platform’s unmatched reliability and security are essential. Yet, as the pace of digital change accelerates and AI becomes a priority…

Greetings from the Modern Mainframe team! If you haven’t visited in while, learn which topics were of most interest to readers in 2022 with the year-end wrap-up: Top 5 Mainframe Modernization stories. Is there a topic you’d like us to cover, or would you like to author an article yourself? Let us know! All the best for 2023… and, BTW, Zowe did repeat ;)

Topics of most interest to mainframe leaders in 2022 As we reflect on accomplishments of the past year and goals for the coming one, understanding which topics peers are exploring can be helpful. Overall, modernization has become a pressing issue for mainframe leaders as Enterprise DevOps raises expectations for software…

Best DevOps for Mainframe Solution for 2nd year in a row — ‘Winning takes talent, to repeat takes character’ — John Wooden The Zowe open source community received fantastic recognition by being named the “Best DevOps for Mainframe Solution” in the DevOps Dozen awards for the second year running. This win reflects the many achievements from this past year, including the following: …

Quick Win by Connecting Changes to Upstream Value Management — Understanding the reason for a code change should be easy. A core principle of Agile development is harnessing change for the customer’s benefit. Therefore, a fundamental requirement is to provide a clear link between code changes taking place and upstream stories and dependencies that define the benefit. Now mainframe teams…

Standing-up Web Services opens up a world of possibilities — As the foundation of application development, Endevor addresses current, emerging, and longer-term needs. With significant numbers of career mainframers retiring, attracting the next generation of talent is a priority. Most young developers want to use contemporary tools like VS Code and Git, driven by familiar pipeline tools and DevOps automation…

The case for Git-based version control for mainframe apps is well-established. A couple of examples… — Analyst perspective (IDC Infobrief): Git and Mainframe Development: Considerations for Enterprises — General introduction (DevOps.com article): Git for Mainframe: Back to the Future — Mainframe perspective (SHARE blogsite): Why Git for Mainframe? Robust automation…

Proven and widely available, mainframe leaders can take advantage of modern developer productivity tools, ones often used by distributed/cloud colleagues for AppDev and DevOps optimization. The question, though, is which ones offer the greatest value? Tools and frameworks like Zowe, Code4z, Test4z, and Endevor Bridge for Git and Team Build…

Version control is the foundation of software development, which explains why Git tools like GitHub and GitLab have quickly become comprehensive AppDev platforms. It also explains why their mainframe predecessors like Panvalet, Librarian and the most widely-used of all, Endevor, experienced similar evolutions long ago. Fun Fact: Endevor was DevOps…