One of the biggest concerns about maintaining mainframe legacy code is that new developers, and even many of the older ones, don’t really understand what the code is doing for the business on a detailed level.  Even if documentation exists, it isn’t enough to ensure that changes to the code won’t eliminate an important feature,

Ever since computers first became integral to the business, the next big challenge emerged: communication between IT and the business. IT-business alignment is a critical exercise if you want to deliver on the business requirements, foster revenue growth and maintain a competitive edge. But this alignment is also critical when you are modernizing or simply

As companies plan modernization projects, the question inevitably arises: what is the best way to modernize a codebase? To ensure that the business is not negatively impacted when modernizing, it is necessary to understand, document, and import all business rules to the new system. As the changes made are meant to improve the business and

Many companies are beginning to realize that the rate of mainframer retirement is only increasing with few new experts in the pipeline. While jobs are plentiful, many members of the workforce do not know COBOL or other legacy languages. They are simply not being taught any longer. And yet, legacy languages are the heart of

Kellan Elliott-McCrea, a recognized tech blogger, recently wrote “Towards an Understanding of Technical Debt.” In the post, he posited that the term ‘technical debt’ is hopelessly overused, covering too many different types of problems with code. Why should we care? If we don’t clearly understand a problem, we can’t solve it. By putting every type

Intelligent Process Workflow: Easier than ever to build Apps Intelligent BPM models are now easier to integrate workflow for business apps, including those on the IBM AS/400. Axon Ivy engineer Clemens Schiller will discuss the latest advantages of Axon IVY 6.0, including a WYSIWYG Editor, Responsive Design, a Collaboration & Monitoring Portal and Business Rules

Some may remember a time when application design meant putting characters on a dumb terminal screen in a somewhat organized fashion, but with only a little regard to the viewing experience. As soon as the Internet provided a gateway for customers to connect with your business, site design became a competitive factor. Add to the

Back when mainframes were the only game in town and the only users were employees of the company, application programming interfaces (APIs) were developed to enable one application to talk to another by exposing some of the program’s internal functions to another program. Like device-handlers, these sets of programming instructions and standards made it much

Alex Woodie writes about CM First’s solution for unifying web and mobile development on IBM i in this month’s IT Jungle. Learn why you shouldn’t be working so hard to respond rapidly to customer demands for apps that run where they want them to. CM First has the solution.   See the full story here:

BI Intelligence recently produced a report based on a survey of mobile app users. The results indicate the catalysts for downloading a given app and how the users found that app. Key factors are to complete a specific task and that they are already using a non-mobile version of the application and prefer to use