Ventilators, retired doctors, N95 face masks — all have been in high demand from heads of state and U.S. governors, but now you can add COBOL programmers to that pandemic response list. That's right, ...

(Updated 4/10: IBM and the Linux Foundation have partnered to set up a portal for both experienced and new COBOL coders to share resources and find opportunities. Here's a link to IBM's press release ...

The coronavirus pandemic is putting a strain on 40-year-old mainframes running COBOL, and New Jersey, Kansas, and Connecticut all need urgent help from programmers. Our team tests, rates, and reviews ...

Many years ago, mainframes ruled the world. The only computer that was available to large companies AND was capable of processing large numbers of transactions was a mainframe. Huge computers and ...

“LONG LIVE COBOL,” wrote Wayne Linksman in a LinkedIn message. “It keeps me employed at 65 years old.” Linksman has been a senior Cobol programmer at Bank of America, where he worked on its credit ...

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You’d think a computer programming language created in 1959 would be outdated — but you’d be incredibly wrong. Most people know Java and C++, but good ol’ COBOL is still alive and kicking. In the US, ...

David Brown is worried. As managing director of the IT transformation group at Bank of New York Mellon, he is responsible for the health and welfare of 112,500 Cobol programs — 343 million lines of ...

We did a piece the other day about how learning the ancient programming language COBOL could make you bank. It was meant as a fun little article about the weird fact that large parts of our banking ...

Cobol, that mainstay of business programming throughout the 1960s, ’70s and ’80s, is not going away anytime soon. In a Computerworld survey early this year of IT managers at 352 companies, 62% of the ...