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Root causes of the perceived mainframe problem as I see it are:

1. It’s difficult to obtain skilled personnel, that’s it.

Why, because you can only truly learn mainframe technologies on a mainframe. Hercules and all the things that IBM have done themselves such as MTM, VS Code extensions are not enough. The barrier to learn mainframe technologies is too high.

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Curious what VS Code extensions have been made for mainframe stuff? Sounds like fun to play with.

I agree with your main point though. Occasionally I’ll see someone recommended people to learn COBOL to get a job as if the language is the most relevant part of that industry.

Zowe and Z Open Editor for integration into Z/OS datasets and UNIX services and support for native datasets and file type editing.

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