AI keeps getting framed as the disruption that finally sidelines the mainframe. Tom McPherson, General Manager of IBM Z and LinuxONE, joins Daniel Newman and Greg Lotko on The Main Scoop to explain why the opposite is happening, and what platform-native modernization delivers that lift-and-shift migration can't.

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Mainframe security carries a persistent myth: that the platform is secure by default. Philip Young, Director of Mainframe Penetration Testing at NetSPI, joins Daniel Newman and Greg Lotko on The Main Scoop to explain why integration layers, not the mainframe core, tend to introduce the most risk, and what enterprise leaders need to challenge about their own assumptions on trust.

Daniel Newman and Greg Lotko speak with Darren Surch, CEO of Interskill, about how agentic AI is reshaping enterprise IT training. The conversation explores why mainframe organizations still need deep knowledge, structured learning, and human judgment even as AI becomes a larger part of the workflow.