Category: Mainframe Fundamentals & Education

Imagine you’re organizing a complex dinner party where you need to coordinate multiple chefs, each preparing different courses, using specific ingredients, in a precise sequence, with particular cooking equipment, all while ensuring that everything comes together perfectly at the right time. Now imagine that instead of speaking to these chefs directly, you had to write…

Imagine you’re the architect for a major corporation that owns both a magnificent, centuries-old castle that houses their most valuable treasures and a state-of-the-art innovation campus where they develop new products and services. Your challenge is to connect these two facilities in ways that allow the company to leverage both the security and proven reliability…

Imagine suggesting to a traditional mainframe team that they should deploy code changes multiple times per day, automate their testing processes, and tear down the careful separation between development and operations that has protected their systems for decades. The reaction you’d likely receive would be similar to suggesting that a master watchmaker should start using…

Imagine you’re responsible for protecting the crown jewels of a major kingdom, but instead of precious stones and gold, you’re safeguarding something far more valuable in today’s economy: the complete financial records of millions of customers, decades of business transactions worth trillions of dollars, and the operational data that keeps critical infrastructure running smoothly. This…

Imagine trying to explain to someone in 1969 that the same type of computer system used to put humans on the moon would one day be running artificial intelligence algorithms that can detect fraud in real-time, predict customer behavior, and automate complex business decisions. This scenario captures the remarkable evolution of mainframe computing from its…