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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The watsonx AI model aims to help developers update COBOL code, while IBM is selling The Weather Company to an investment firm. IBM has unveiled its latest generative AI creation, which is designed to ...

One for the ancient immortal computing demons still among us: COBOL, one of the first programming languages to fall into favor, but long succeeded by more efficient and easier to understand languages ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

TL;DR: IBM introduced a few months ago a new AI-powered service designed to assist industries in transitioning from COBOL to newer programming standards. Watsonx can do a lot to modernize the ancient ...

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 ...