Four reasons why your mainframe applications are considered legacy
We often hear our customers say that their mainframe legacy applications have been superseded because they cannot evolve quickly enough to support the changing needs of the business. More than anything, this appears to be a key driving force behind the dramatic upswing in interest companies have to move their applications onto other platforms; either […]
A guide to running mainframe applications in containers & as microservices
Containers and Modernization So what exactly is the power of this technological innovation? Containers drastically reduce time-to-market. They make the race to continuous innovation sustainable, even at the scale of these internet giants! This innovation is the fuel for the digital evolution of entire business sectors for both new and old companies. In the digital […]
How to achieve horizontal scaling of batch mainframe workload
In conjunction with SDM, LzBatch™ provides support for executing legacy mainframe batch jobs in a modern x86-Linux environment. LzBatch provides binary-compatible execution for Batch applications written in COBOL, PL/1 or Assembler. This means that an application can run without recompilation in a Linux environment based on x86 hard¬ware. Standard mainframe Job Control Language (JCL) and […]
An easy way to transform COBOL to JAVA
At the other extreme of computing history, fifty years later, Java, invented at Sun Microsystems in 1995 by James Gosling, is clearly the current leading programming language in the corporate world. It delivers the very powerful abstractions of object-oriented programming, backed by the largest tooling ever developed for any language and fostered by an immense […]
Swisscom migrates entire mainframe workload to the Cloud
Swisscom is a major telecommunications provider in Switzerland. As you can imagine, they have been running mainframes for quite some time. Over 40 years in fact! Swisscom, like any other telecommunications provider, faces pressures in the highly competitive communications market. They recognize the need to focus spending in the areas that provide the most business […]
Complete Mainframe Migration: a Q&A with Swisscom’s Markus Tschumper
Markus Tschumper, Head of General IT Services at Swisscom, and I met on stage at Garter Symposium/ITXpo 2018 to discuss Swisscom’s migration to the LzLabs Software Defined Mainframe®(SDM). Covering the cultural, technology and skills challenges of such a project, and how LzLabs and Swisscom overcame these together, Markus gives his advice to any business seeking […]