For many, the mainframe is the face of the technology industry. Yet, it is the sexier cousins, such as cloud computing, software-as-a-service (SaaS) and mobile gaming apps that bathe in the media ...

Mainframes are still widely in use at banks, insurance companies, and other big businesses that handle lots of credit card transactions. You might think of the mainframe computer as long-gone relic of ...

Tom Jodel, who is himself a programmer, interviewed his mother, who works as an IBM mainframe COBOL programmer at a major bank, about banking systems. Jodel's mother started in-house training at ...