World Congress 2023 • Oct 6, 2023

Unlocking the Power of the Mainframe: Developing modern applications on z/OS

Igor Todorovski

IBM's Igor Roski shatters mainframe myths. Discover how the z/OS Open Tools initiative brings Git, Bash, and Python to the world's most reliable enterprise architecture.

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3:48 min

Modernizing massive legacy mainframe and IBM i codebases

Maximilian Jesch

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Comparing centralized mainframe history to modern cloud architectures

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3:28 min

Overcoming training data scarcity for mainframe modernization models

Julia Kordick

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Analyzing COBOL mainframe migration challenges with AI

Michael Friedrich

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Modernizing legacy COBOL mainframe systems using AI agents

Julia Kordick

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Modernizing legacy execution and outdated mainframes

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