COBOL, or Common Business Oriented Language, is one of the oldest programming languages in use, dating back to around 1959. It's had surprising staying power; according to a 2022 survey, there's over ...

For decades the rapidly ageing COBOL developer population has been kept in work looking after mainframes with legacy code so old they make Enigma look like a spring chicken. COBOL has been running ...

Watsonx Code Assistant Adds COBOL-to-Java Translations on IBM Z Your email has been sent IBM announced today watsonx Code Assistant for Z, a generative AI-assisted solution for COBOL-to-Java mainframe ...

Biggish blue has a cunning plan to use AI to convert COBOL code into something a little more modern. More than three trillion dollars’ worth of transactions are handled by COBOL code which has never ...

Micro Focus has announced the results of its new COBOL Survey that reveals the latest global developments and 2022 plans for enterprises utilizing COBOL and mainframe technology. The survey found that ...

Despite the proliferation of digital banking apps, the banking industry still runs almost half its systems on a 1950s programming language, which makes it difficult for financial institutions to ...

To be digitally agile, enterprises must more quickly and frequently update their core mainframe systems—while also shifting stewardship of those applications from retiring COBOL veterans to IT staff ...

[url=http://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?p=29580225#p29580225:b8de1gif said: That's what I said when I found out about Visual COBOL (.NET COBOL). This takes it ...

IN THE NEARLY five years I have been writing for InfoWorld, never has an article of mine generated such incredible response as “Application transformation.” The article presented an overview of two ...

Cobol has certainly taken hits to its integrity over the four-plus decades it’s been in service. It’s now widely renowned as cumbersome and inflexible to today’s IT requirements. Despite such an ...