In this Skyward Data episode, Vince Re, CTO of VirtualZ and the original architect behind much of today’s mainframe innovation, walks through a live demo of PropelZ™ in its new Incremental Mode — showing how it delivers faster, smarter data movement without reprocessing entire files. Over seven minutes, Vince demonstrates how PropelZ captures, transforms, and updates VSAM data directly into a modern relational database, automatically handling complex mainframe structures such as packed decimals, binary fields, and floating-point data. What you’ll hear: 🔹 Viewing a real VSAM dataset in IBM File Manager (76,000+ airport records) 🔹 Understanding COBOL copybook metadata and schema mapping 🔹 Running PropelZ with the Incremental option 🔹 Creating and populating MySQL tables with full index generation 🔹 Making live record edits and running a lightni ...