I also work in a bank and I am a Db2 z/os database administrator with 13yr experience. We did a little exercise a month back involving all mainframe smes(syspro

I also work in a bank and I am a Db2 z/os database administrator with 13yr experience. We did a little exercise a month back involving all mainframe smes(sysprogs/storage/Db2/cics/mq). Numbers are like, mainframe costs only 8%(including people and licenses), carbon foot print is 3% in data centre and 85% of all Tier 1 applications run on mainframe. Offhost side of people who saw stats were amazed. Two years back Db2 has become strategical database previously it was oracle in the decision tree. Security and up time has been solid. Just seeing the trend at workplace on work related to mainframe, I would say it's picking up. Basically we know the work(projects), so we are focussed on onboarding process for newer applications as we are more and more working with people who have no idea about mainframe or who were once on the bandwagon saying mainframe is dying once. Interns are trained internally after college. I would say that's the best training.... At first, they hate it. It's all black and green text, but slowly they pick up.