{"id":994905,"date":"2026-02-26T08:02:20","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T02:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=994905"},"modified":"2026-02-26T11:08:25","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T05:38:25","slug":"explainer-how-claude-code-threatens-to-disrupt-ibms-mainframe-biz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/26\/explainer-how-claude-code-threatens-to-disrupt-ibms-mainframe-biz\/","title":{"rendered":"Explainer: How Claude Code threatens to disrupt IBM\u2019s mainframe biz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anthropic\u2019s announcement that its updated AI tool can modernise COBOL, an old programming language that runs on IBM\u2019s mainframes, left Big Blue\u2019s stocks battered on Monday. Banasree Purkayastha looks at how the AI startup\u2019s tool aims to automate the legacy system which is scaring the enterprise software and IT services industry <\/p>\n<p>l  What did Anthropic say? <\/p>\n<p>IN A BLOG post on February 23, AI startup Anthropic declared that the economics of modernising COBOL, a dated programming language that runs on IBM mainframes, have shifted with the advent of AI tools like its own Claude Code. \u201cModernising a COBOL system once required armies of consultants spending years mapping workflows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anthropic\u2019s announcement that its updated AI tool can modernise COBOL, an old programming language that runs on IBM\u2019s mainframes, left Big Blue\u2019s stocks battered on Monday. Banasree Purkayastha looks at how the AI startup\u2019s tool aims to automate the legacy system which is scaring the enterprise software and IT services industry l What did Anthropic say? IN A BLOG post on February 23, AI startup Anthropic declared that the economics of modernising COBOL, a dated programming language that runs on IBM mainframes, have shifted with the advent of AI tools like its own Claude Code. \u201cModernising a COBOL system once [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-994905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=994905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994905\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=994905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=994905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=994905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}