In April 2020, New Jersey’s governor, Phil Murphy, stepped up to a microphone and told journalists that he was amazed the state still ran its unemployment system on COBOL — a 60-year-old programming ...

IT managers that use Cobol in their organizations are quick to defend the the capabilities of the language – even as many plan to get rid of it. This week’s cover story, Cobol: Not Dead Yet, examines ...

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. Since the introduction of COBOL in 1959 and its standardization 10 years later, it has served as the backbone of mainframe business ...

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 ...

GFT, a digital transformation pioneer, and CloudFrame, a provider of pathways to digital transformation for large organisations who are running mission-critical applications on COBOL, have partnered ...

The programming language known as COBOL, which stands for Common Business Oriented Language, turns 65 this year. We couldn’t help noticing that’s right around retirement age, but COBOL is nowhere near ...

Let me tell you about a hot Web scripting language. It’s been ported to almost every computer architecture ever made; its speed and readability are legendary. It’s known to be good with databases.