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Now that you mention it. Isn’t the brand new FedNow program built using mainframe tech?

Shit man, IBM will live on for centuries (assuming we get that far)

Mainframes are technologically pretty interesting just wrapped in IBM poison

You are not forced to use the "poison" - you can get them as LinuxONE machines and run everything on top of a very thin hypervisor (which is necessary, since nothing runs on bare metal on the newer machines).

Am I not then throwing away all the cool stuff that makes them unique?

The poison I'm referring to is the IBM bean counters and lock-in not the software

AFAIK, the LinuxONE boxes come without lock-in - what you pay for is what you get and there aren't any monthly subscriptions as there are with z/OS and the various pay-as-you-go features (besides, of course, the maintenance contract you WILL want to have for a multi-million dollar machine that uses mostly bespoke hardware).

Am I wrong?

The FRB moved the last of its major services off of the mainframe around 2017 I believe. It does use MQ as an interface.

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