• S602 - Mainframe Modernization: From Vintage to Vogue

    Session Evaluation

    Many say the mainframe is vintage. Others say the mainframe is vogue. How do these different views come about and what can we all do to ensure that the mainframe is no longer regarded as old by the ignorant? What is the real problem and how do we tackle it? Come with me on a fashion journey and give the mainframe new clothes, just like a Croatian government body did. We did an in-platform modernization on Z and a mass refactoring of a PL/1 codebase with a migration from IMS to Db2 on Z incredibly fast using AI. Let me show you the details.