According to a 2022 survey by overseas media The Stack, the number of COBOL lines used in production environments exceeds 800 billion lines worldwide. On the other hand, there are few experts in COBOL ...

IBM has announced COBOL for Linux on x86 1.1, bringing IBM's COBOL compilation technologies and capabilities to the Linux on x86 environment. According to the IBM announcement, COBOL for Linux on x86 ...

The COBOL programming language for IBM mainframes. In 1994, IBM dropped support of OS/VS COBOL, which conformed to ANSI 68 and 74 standards and limited a program's address space to 16 bits. IBM's VS ...

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 ...

The COVID-19 outbreak, as well as the societal shutdowns that have followed, have thrust a lot of sudden changes onto state and local government. Many who have never worked remotely are learning how ...

By enhancing their people, planning, processes, and products, Programmers.io has elevated their capabilities to better support IBM i and IBM Z modernization. At Programmers.io, we ensure that our ...

IBM is developing a generative artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted software development tool to help its customers modernise legacy Cobol applications, The new tool, watsonx Code Assistant for Z, ...

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 ...

IBM is rushing to create new COBOL programming resources as governors across the United States call for new programmers to deal with a crush of citizens filing claims. Share on Facebook (opens in a ...

The product is targeted at modernizing mainframe applications that run on IBM Z systems, as the number of COBOL developers starts to dwindle. In a bid to help IBM Z systems customers modernize their ...

IBM has overhauled how the 50-year-old programming language COBOL runs on its System z mainframes to give COBOL apps a web-friendly facelift. Despite COBOL's age IBM estimates that more than 200 ...

The COBOL programming language was created in 1959 and has been widely seen as obsolete for decades. Yet there are still a fair number of software systems based on the language. The economic stresses ...