I tend to think the mainframe shortages are the result of a culture that views mainframe "operators" and "system programmers" as nearly minimum wage unskilled j

I tend to think the mainframe shortages are the result of a culture that views mainframe "operators" and "system programmers" as nearly minimum wage unskilled jobs until someone has 40 years of experience. But what really gets me is that tapeless mainframe backup solution abound. Though they tend to fall into two categories. The ones that require code changes in legacy applications that are using tape as hierarchical storage. And the pile of virtual tape solutions (like this one https://tributary.com/storage-director-2/ https://tributary.com/storage-director-2/) which appear as tapes on the mainframe and dump the data to alternate sources disk/AWS-S3/whatever. I guess there is a 3rd "transparent" set of methods that basically back-up/snapshot individual volumes outside of the applications. Either way, their page could do a better job contrasting their product with existing backup solutions.