While summer winds down, life is revving up in the AMC sector. As ever, we will help keep you right up to date. This month–news of virtual events with real benefits, a chance to kick the tyres on new products, and the chance to begin your Digital Transformation journey. Let’s go!

Mainframe Market Survey Results

The Big COBOL Survey of 2019/20 captured the COBOL and mainframe market in data. It asked important strategic questions of business leaders around the world. What did they say?

Join Micro Focus and industry research experts, Vanson Bourne, for this webinar. See how COBOL will continue to support the mainframe as enterprises begin their Digital Transformation journeys.

Take the opportunity to better understand the survey results, and pose your questions.

When is it? Wednesday, September 23, 2020 @ 12:00 PM CDT Register here

Change Management Masterclass

Micro Focus ChangeMan ZMF is definitely the software change, configuration, and release management solution for z/OS. But you could probably get more from this class-leading tool. So join this two-day Virtual Event on Wednesday, 7 October and Thursday, 8 October from 1 p.m. EDT – 3 p.m. EDT.

What will you learn?

•  The Basics: Everything you need to understand and use REST Support
• The Future: ChangeMan ZMF product roadmap
• The Questions: Connecting ChangeMan ZMF to a DevOps Pipeline

A world of innovation: Micro Focus Virtual Universe

Did you miss the live event in May? Were you unable to catch that cool AMC content? Didn’t see the sessions, or dive in to the demos?  Here’s the news: every minute of the Application Modernization and Connectivity is now available on-demand. Explore more here.

Webinars: Upcoming and On-Demand

 Enjoy our upcoming AppMod Webinars live and kicking, and rewind those you missed on demand.

 Rumba Desktop 10.1 Product Launch Webinar: Anytime, Anywhere Host Access - from Desktop, Web and Mobile – Wednesday, September 30 at 11:00 a.m. EDT. Register here.

Reflection Desktop 17.0 Product Launch Webinar: Secure, Manageable, and Innovative Terminal Emulation – Tuesday, October 6 at 1 p.m. EDT. Register here.

InfoConnect Desktop 17.0 Product Launch Webinar: Innovative Terminal Emulation for Unisys and Airlines – Wednesday, October 7 at 11 a.m. EDT. Register here.

#COBOL60: Then, Now, and Next – Wednesday, October 14 at 11 a.m. EDT. Register here.

On-Demand: How to Gain Secure Mainframe Access via the Cloud. View the recording here.

Begin your Digital Transformation journey

Digital transformation is not a single, one shot deal. An iterative, incremental journey it only ends when industry innovation stops happening. But while your path to digital transformation may not end, it has to begin – and soon. You’ll need expert opinion. Get the analyst research here. 

Try this. Product Trials

Did you ever wonder why we are so enthusiastic about Visual COBOL? Find out, by trying it out. Discover how new tools are helping modern software developers build, test, deploy, and modernize COBOL applications either on-premises, or in the cloud using Visual Studio or Eclipse. 

Visual COBOL for Visual Studio – Download here.

Visual COBOL on Azure – Download here.

Visual COBOL for Eclipse – Download here.

New Blogs!

 AMC Tech Tips Blog: Debugging PL/I from COBOL under Eclipse, by Michael Toth: Read here.

Mainframe for DevOps puts an end to silos, by Christina Cardoza via SD Times: Read here.

Tightening Mainframe Access & Security, by Barbara Ballard: Read here.

Tightening Mainframe Access and Security: Part 2, by Barbara Ballard. Read here.

Tightening Mainframe Access and Security: Part 3, by Barbara Ballard. Read here.