Some states have called on programmers who know the programming language COBOL to help their computers process unemployment claims in the wake of COVID-19.

Yes, Cobol is dying -- just not yet. In that gap, some wily coders see opportunity for a career, or at least a secure job.

As baby boomers retire, the business processes they used to create their Cobol programs may walk out the door with them. Here's what IT organizations are doing about it.

When the last Cobol programmers walk out the door, 50 years of business processes encapsulated in the software they created may follow.

The scarcity of Cobol software programmers in Hong Kong is threatening the competitiveness of local banks.

IBM and the Open Mainframe Project need COBOL programmers for problems created by Covid-19. Can you help?

In our mania for the new, it’s convenient to forget just how long the “old” stays with us. Take COBOL, for example. The venerable programming language turns 60 this month and, as Steven J ...