Mainframe Analytics

01/07/2025

Reg Harbeck, chief strategist at Mainframe Analytics Limited, shares his resolution for 2025, focusing on the value of mature platforms like the mainframe.

09/24/2024

The legacy fallacy:

The idea that, if you can show that an established, functioning system is imperfect then your innovative alternative must be superior.

07/09/2024

What is normal? Or ordinary? Or COBOL?

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IBM Champion Reg Harbeck highlights the 65th anniversary of COBOL, what we take for granted about the programming language and predictions for the future

06/20/2024

A mainframe timeline:

The mainframe has achieved technology milestones ranging from a lunar landing to a rack-mounted design

06/19/2024

And this just went live!

How the IBM Z mainframe continues to evolve and excel

06/18/2024

What is a mainframe and why does it matter?

In this episode, Mark sits down with Reg Harbeck, a true aficionado of the technology that runs much of our world behind the scenes. Reg shares his unique pe...

05/16/2024

Some things ya just gotta SHARE:

Reg Harbeck, chief strategist at Mainframe Analytics, shares his insights on maintaining mental health by balancing beauty, truth, and love in our lives.

05/03/2024

I’ll admit it: this makes me happy. Especially when so many others who received such recognition are friends of mine!

04/09/2024

The Mainframe just turned 60 (just like Tim Horton’s!) and it’s still going strong if I do say so 🤓

The integrity of both the mainframe platform and the people within the ecosystem have kept the world’s economy humming for 60 years. But don’t just take it from our hosts […]

10/31/2023

Ghosts and mainframes? Oh my!

If you’ve ever found yourself in a house so old that it smells like the last century and emits random creaks, you may have wondered if it had non-corporeal inhabitants, like the spirits in “Poltergeist” or "Ghostbusters." You may not immediately envision such disembodied gremlins inhabiting ou...

03/09/2021

Discussion for the COBOL Working Group