The 2025 Arcati Mainframe Survey results are in, delivering valuable insights into the current landscape of the mainframe industry. Conducted by Planet Mainframe from November 2024 to January 2025, this global, cross-industry survey captures a comprehensive snapshot...
After perusing blogs, surveys, and insights - and attending SHARE- DC, it’s clear that several big trends are emerging about what’s shaping mainframe careers and training. Here's what’s standing out—and why it matters right now. 1. Hands-On Learning Is the New...
The modern field of artificial intelligence (AI) was formally founded in 1956 at a conference in New Hampshire, United States, where the term "artificial intelligence" was coined. That puts modern AI only a few years younger than the mainframe, first used in 1943....
Skip to the Survey Hey Mainframe Enthusiast! Exciting news: Dive into the mainframe universe with the Arcati Mainframe Yearbook's annual survey. Your insights are the pulse of IBM Z users—hardware, software, and future plans. This year, we’re exploring mainframe's...
The 2024 Arcati Mainframe Yearbook is underway! This publication has de facto reference work for IT professionals working with z/OS (and its forerunner) systems since 2005. The Yearbook’s highlights include a comprehensive annual user survey and an...
Why focus on the mainframe for a look forward? If you’ve read the rest of the IT-based rhetoric about 2022 and 2023, there is not much talk about the mainframe. This comes as no surprise since in many ways the mainframe is still siloed in many organizations. Even...
One bright spot for many mainframers, in what can be a very dull January, is the arrival of the Arcati Mainframe Yearbook. The 2023 edition of this well-respected publication is now available and completely free. Let’s take a look at some highlights from the new...
The way you learned about mainframes was probably a mixture of courses, working with a more experienced colleague, and trial and error. And once you became a bit of an expert, it didn’t end there. You needed to learn more about Liberty profiles, about RESTful states,...
