by Penney Berryman | Apr 6, 2026 | Modernization, Research & Surveys, SHARE Conference
At SHARE Orlando, Amanda Hendley, Managing Editor of Planet Mainframe, shared insights from the 2026 annual Arcati survey. She cut through the industry hype to focus on what the data say about the current state of the platform. The overarching theme? While the core...
by Influential Mainframer | Apr 3, 2026 | Influential Mainframers 2026, Innovation, Leadership
Anshul Agrawal Senior Manager, Product DevelopmentBMC Software Pune, Maharashtra, India This piece is part of the 2026 Planet Mainframe Influential Mainframers series. The mainframe has always been built on trust. Decades of reliability, scale, and performance have...
by Sonja Soderlund | Apr 3, 2026 | influential-mainframers, Trivia
At Planet Mainframe, April is dedicated to honoring influential mainframers past and present. This week’s quiz dives into the life and times of Bob Evans (1927–2004), who played a central role in shaping modern enterprise computing during his career at IBM. ...
by Influential Mainframer | Apr 2, 2026 | Influential Mainframers 2026, Innovation, Leadership
Geoffrey Decker Instructor, Northern Illinois UniversityCo-Founder and Lead Instructor, Eli Madison Memorial Apprenticeships (EMMA) DeKalb, Illinois, USA This piece is part of the 2026 Planet Mainframe Influential Mainframers series. The Maestro of the Mainframe...
by Influential Mainframer | Apr 1, 2026 | Influential Mainframers 2026, Leadership, z/OS
Pasquale “PJ” Catalano IBM Z & LinuxONE Test ArchitectIBM Infrastructure, EST&IPoughkeepsie, New York, USA This piece is part of the 2026 Planet Mainframe Influential Mainframers series. IBM Z & LinuxONE Test Architect and Master Inventor, Pasquale “PJ”...
by Uwe Graf | Mar 27, 2026 | Artificial Intelligence, Dev Ops, Innovation, Modernization
Bridging JCL and APIs in Mainframe Modernization Mainframe development sits between two realities. On one side, there is the traditional world of JCL, structured batch processes, and deterministic workflows. On the other, we see the rise of API-driven automation,...
by Sebastian Dewar | Mar 26, 2026 | Arcati, IT Strategy, Sponsored
The Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) became fully enforceable across the European Union on January 17, 2025. From that date forward, financial institutions can no longer simply assert that their systems are resilient. They must demonstrate it. And when that...
by Vertali | Mar 25, 2026 | Arcati, IT Strategy, Sponsored
Six talking points for 2026 and beyond A decade ago, who could have predicted we’d be living in a golden age for the mainframe, with major investment and the platform acting as the backbone of today’s hybrid IT strategies? This article summarizes some of the issues...
by Amanda Hendley | Mar 24, 2026 | AI & Innovation, Events, Modernization, SHARE Conference, Video Interview, Workforce & Training
If you’ve ever been to a SHARE conference, you know the energy. There’s this buzz of people who are genuinely passionate about what they do. Orlando was no different, and sitting down with Tony Anter in the middle of all that felt right at home. Tony and I...
by Sonja Soderlund | Mar 23, 2026 | Modernization, Trivia
This week, our Planet Mainframe quiz continues the “Next-Gen Mainframe” theme. For decades, mainframe development operated in its own world—but as the broader industry converged on open-source tooling, Git-based collaboration, and cloud-style DevOps pipelines, the...
by Gil Peleg | Mar 13, 2026 | AI & Innovation, Artificial Intelligence, Featured, Technology
AI for the Mainframe: Turning System Data Into Answers For the past year, nearly every conversation about artificial intelligence and the mainframe has centered on one question: What will AI do to COBOL? Will it modernize legacy applications? Generate new programs?...
by Sonja Soderlund | Mar 11, 2026 | Trivia
If you’ve been in the mainframe ecosystem for any time at all, you’ll know that the mainframe has long been associated with stability and staying power. But today’s conversation increasingly centers on the evolution of the next-gen mainframe, and how it fits into...
by Amanda Hendley | Mar 9, 2026
March 31 | 2:30 PM(UTC+11:00) Sydney REGISTER Mainframe development is evolving – and you deserve tools that empower you, not hold you back. Join us for a technical workshop and see how BMC AMI DevX enables developers to work faster, smarter, and with greater...
by Amanda Hendley | Mar 5, 2026
Mainframe data is no longer a “black box.” As organizations push for real-time insights and seamless hybrid cloud integration, the ability to access CICS-managed data via modern APIs has become a strategic necessity. This webinar cuts through the...
