The latest report found on WGR, on the global Mainframe Development market has mentioned several noteworthy players ruling the Mainframe Development market.

"With data protection and security a major priority among most enterprises, it's concerning that this new survey suggests mainframe shops have been slow to take up multifactor authentication, which has been available for the platform since 2016," said Keith Banham, Mainframe Research and Development Manager at Macro 4.

This partnership enables clients that rely on the mainframe for business critical operations to easily access development, testing, application management and regulatory compliance services within IBM's zCloud offering for operational resiliency, efficiencies and workforce agility.

Security and compliance mandates will be key drivers for technology evaluations and mainframe data analytics.

Inventorying existing mainframe data, applications, capacity, utilization and management tools.

Commenting on the research results, Derek Britton, Director of Product Marketing at Micro Focus said: "Core mainframe applications are often the lifeblood of the organization, yet the burden of IT debt is on the increase.

Companies are struggling to fill the skills shortage in mainframe development as existing staff retire and IT students are put off from the unattractive development environment, according to research.

Addressing some of the chief problems faced by mainframe operators today, CA Technologies has updated its stack of mainframe management software to help cut costs and simplify management.

Yet numerous organizations--motivated by opportunities to reduce hardware and software costs, expand skill sets, and leverage the scalability of emerging technologies--have begun to modernize their mainframe applications.