Comment by ranger77

All I do is COBOL. Everyday. Our team has led over 40 “modernization” efforts, with about half migrating the apps to an X86 platform. There are “tons” of COBOL apps in Production, and not just limited to Financial organizations. I work with County, State and Federal systems. Retail, Insurance, Telecom, and Manufacturing. It’s not uncommon to work on programs that were original written in the 80’s or 90’s

The IBM Z is feature rich, but expensive and limited by software choices for apps not running ZLinux. (Think virtual Linux server)

The biggest catalyst now is the increasing license cost of mainframe third party software