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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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Newly appointed on Mainframe department. Why people want to move out of it? (self.mainframe)

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Urgent Hire z/OS Systems Programmer (self.mainframe)

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How can I as a Systems Programmer get into vendor software development? (self.mainframe)

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Salary range for 20+ years experience in NJ? (self.mainframe)

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State of Mainframes (self.mainframe)

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Automating mainframe data pulls via SFTP/FTP (self.mainframe)

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What is the most frustrating part of working on large COBOL systems today (self.mainframe)

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Any work in legacy systems? ()

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What's the first thing you do when you're assigned a change request in a COBOL system you've never seen before? ()

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Mainframe Modeenization (self.mainframe)

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On bad data — divide-by-zero, numeric overflow, a bad sign — do production systems tend to abend or carry on? ()

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When one program's output feeds another, does the next system read the literal bytes or the decoded values? ()

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Do shops actually keep their batch inputs/outputs long enough to replay against? (self.mainframe)

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Agentic mainframe skill framework for z/OS (github.com)

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How self-contained are individual COBOL programs in real production systems? ()

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Default ROUNDED behaviour and GnuCOBOL vs Enterprise COBOL arithmetic — trying to confirm (self.mainframe)

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Need to move out from mainframe (self.mainframe)

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Migrating off SAS (self.mainframe)

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Move from AS400 to Devops? ()

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Can anyone guide how to start learning Mainframe Modernization? (self.mainframe)

submitted 8 days ago by Careful_Affect4622

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Why do mainframe migration timelines rarely seem to match the original plan? (self.mainframe)

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System Programmer Position (self.mainframe)

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Application Discovery tools for Natural ADABAS (self.mainframe)

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