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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.

 Let's explore facts that highlight the allure and excitement of these technological marvels and test your knowledge to see what you know.

Across the industry, there is a dramatic shift in the way organizations perceive the value that the mainframe can deliver. 

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.

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 perceive the primary challenge to be the archaic COBOL code, closer look reveals another one.

COBOL isn’t seen as a modern development technology. Recent research, however, might surprise you.