IBM's New Software Eases Maintenance On Mainframe Computers!!!

IBM hopes a new effort to simplify programming for mainframe computers helps keep those antiques competitive. Mainframe computers are sophisticated computers that for more than 40 years have handled complex functions such as bank transactions. They can cost more than $1 million each, but they retain a strong presence in companies that need extremely reliable and secure computing.

However, some of the machines' traditional tasks have been shifted to lower-cost computers in many corporate networks, leading rivals to denigrate the mainframe as a dinosaur. The market for mainframes and other high-end servers shrank from $19 billion in 2000 to below $12 billion last year, according to IDC research director Steve Josselyn.

IBM retains the leading share of the field and reaps a significant bounty from the software and maintenance associated with mainframes. But sales of the machines themselves dropped 7.6%. Lately, IBM has tried to keep mainframes by encouraging computing administrators to run open-source software and other lightweight programs on mainframes.

Now IBM is announcing an effort to simplify the operating system and programming language that run mainframes, which often take years for specialist to master. The company spends to spend $100 million over the next five years on the project, which will aim to make running a mainframe much like controlling any other kind of computer.

That means mainframes will finally get more of the graphical interfaces and drag-and-drop controls that are standard on personal computers and servers today. The absence of such features is thought to hinder the recruitment of new mainframe engineers, who are in dire need.

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