Quick Start for individuals chomping at the bit and Complete Experience for fully-featured team adoption The excitement around using VS Code for mainframe application development is palpable. …

8 Insights with Resources for VS Code & Code4z Adoption For mainframe AppDev leaders, introducing VS Code is an effective way to: Accelerate developer velocity Attract new-to-mainframe talent Excite younger team members But where do you start? Right here! Important Point #1 — Unrivaled popularity VS Code’s popularity is unprecedented. …

Code4z offers ‘in the zone’ productivity, heightened ‘situational awareness’, and a big WOW factor Whether fighter pilot or Formula One driver, performing at an elite level requires a relentless focus on precision execution. To help these professionals capture small margins of advantage that add up to big victories, their teams…

High-impact entry points chosen by mainframe engineering teams While many mainframe teams are adopting hybrid cloud tooling, CI/CD automation, and other contemporary Application Development practices, others are still searching for an effective starting point. Conflicting priorities can make this exercise particularly challenging: Various stakeholders ROI timeline (immediate vs. longer term) …

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…