The Open Mainframe Project (OMP), an open source initiative that enables collaboration across the mainframe community to develop shared tool sets and resources, has launched a COBOL Working Group, ...

The challenges organizations face with legacy systems are not in fact a result of COBOL, or any other programming language; the language is just a syntax for expressing business rules. A programming ...

New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy even put out a public plea for volunteers who know how to code the decades-old programming language COBOL in which many legacy mainframe applications are written. This ...

With states issuing pleas for volunteer coders, we set out to learn more about the woman-invented language powering the mainframe computers that process unemployment claims, and why there’s a shortage ...

The COBOL skills gap is neither as extreme nor as straightforward as you might imagine. Here’s what companies can do to keep their COBOL systems running, and what would-be COBOL developers should know ...

Allianz Australia has defended its decision to design a five-year "transformation journey" on top of a 30-year-old Cobol mainframe application, describing the choice as a low-cost, low-risk option.