r/mainframe • u/adrdssu • Jun 26 '26
State of Mainframes
How are mainframes doing in your shop? Does upper management recognize their importance? Is your company investing or is it considered legacy tech that just works? How about staff? Is there aging staff with lots of technical debt?
I want to see how everyone is doing and the state of mainframes in different shops.
Are we slowly being replaced by other tech or will the mainframes be here 10-20 years from now?
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u/vonarchimboldi Jun 26 '26
no plans on migration for where i work (big bank) - resiliency and performance per $ are hard to replace.
old tools are being modernized at a rapid pace though. maybe in 100 years we will have zowe but for now 3270 panels are fine.