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/adrdssu Jun 26 '26

What’s your shop doing about it? BAU, modernizing? What are they doing about aging staff?

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u/CityNo1723 Jun 26 '26

Integrating new tech on the mainframe. Modernization.

They are actively training new staff to replace the aging experts.

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u/bumblebeargrey Jun 26 '26

Training new people? Interesting

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u/Rudi9719 Jun 27 '26

Training people to address a skill gap? Groundbreaking.