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A survey found that over half (51%) of IT leaders rely on mainframe systems to handle all, or nearly all, core business applications.

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In the complex landscape of mainframe environments, ensuring the seamless operation of critical applications is paramount.

Let us define applications and then explain why they may need modernizing.

COBOL, a 60-year-old programming language, is still vital for business systems, with billions of lines of code in use. 

Mainframes still matter today. According to IBM^®, 45 of the world’s top 50 banks run on IBM^® zSystems.

Transactions today happen in the blink of an eye, making the reliability and efficiency of underlying processes more critical than ever. 

Key points discussed on the role of AI within mainframe and COBOL modernization to help automate the modernization journey.

While many with valuable legacy applications on the mainframe perceive the primary challenge to be the archaic COBOL code, closer look reveals [...]