[KarlInOhio]

There's nothing magical about mainframes. You just have to be willing to pay enough to attract programmers from other jobs and then invest a few months in training them. If businesses are whining, that means they either want government support or cheap H1B immigrants.

[decimon]

There's nothing magical about mainframes.

It was always PFM that fixed them.

[FourPeas]

Around the year 2000 legacy code upgrade “panic”, I’d been retired and away from COBOL for about 5 years. I visited various contract agencies who sought mainframe programmers. When I went to apply for various positions, you’d have thought I was a second class manure shoveler. My skills didn’t matter. Increasingly the IT attitude toward the mainframe world has driven good people away.