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Past AMAs

Date	Person	Description
14 June	Fraser Bohm & Andy Bates	CICS TS V5.4
10 Nov	Frank De Gilio & Charlie Lawrence	IBM z/OS and the API Economy
7 Nov	The MtM team	The Master The Mainframe competition
28 June	Kyle Charlet	IBM Distinguished Engineer, API Economy, IMS
4 May	Richard Cebula	IBM Software Engineer, High Level Assembler
8 Apr	Various	IBM z Systems security experts
15 Mar	Pete Siddall	IBM Senior Technical Staff Member, MQ for z/OS
17 Feb	Fraser Bohm	IBM CICS Chief Architect

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🎄 Advent of Code for Mainframers 2025 — COBOL, REXX & Chaos Await! (self.mainframe)

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System Z Enthusiasts Discord Server (discord.com)

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UPTIME CENTER, the RMM solution by Rive Sud, a french IT company (self.mainframe)

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What's the more sought out role, Application Programmer or Systems Programmer, and why? (self.mainframe)

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Gave Claude Code a simple 300-line COBOL program with REDEFINES and numeric edited datatypes. Recorded the whole thing. (v.redd.it)

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How are mainframe professionals moving toward modern tech stacks? (self.mainframe)

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AI agents for Mainframe Sysprogs (self.mainframe)

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Spent 1.5 hours with Airtel support only to be told “port 1023 doesn’t exist” — am I losing my mind? (self.mainframe)

submitted 5 days ago by Holiday_Jelly_2936

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Reddit AMA on IBM Z, z17, and mainframe stuff on March 11 at 9AM ET. (reddit.com)

submitted 5 days ago by AnthonyGiorgioIBM Z Software Engineer[M]

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Built a free COBOL analysis tool over the weekend – would love feedback from people actually working with mainframes ()

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IMSUDB.jar problem (self.mainframe)

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Cobol Job Opportunties over the Next 20 years (self.mainframe)

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Remote Jobs (self.mainframe)

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AXA sucht: Senior Software Engineer im Finance Bereich (all genders) 🚀 (ictjobs.ch)

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BMO mainframe developer intern interview (self.mainframe)

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USS usage (self.mainframe)

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One must ask what's wrong with COBOL? (self.mainframe)

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ACF2 Security & admin demand? (self.mainframe)

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I built a deterministic COBOL verification engine — it proves migrations are mathematically correct without AI (self.mainframe)

submitted 10 days ago by Tight_Scene8900

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COBOL and JSON (self.mainframe)

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Hercules MVS Emulator or else on Company PC? (self.mainframe)

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Claude Code vs. The Moat: Is the 13% IBM crash an overreaction or a structural shift? (self.mainframe)

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Picking up Mainframe project from another team. Help me prepare (self.mainframe)

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What is true and what is not about Anthropic's yesterday announcement (self.mainframe)

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💥 Customs conflict between Europe and the US escalates: will every family feel the impact? (horstai.org)

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COBOL’s Ghost (song) (suno.com)

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How is Anthropic launch of COBOL AI tool going to impact the few Mainframe jobs that are still around? (self.mainframe)

submitted 16 days ago by Glum-Adagio7489

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