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, ...

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 ...

You’re wrong if you think COBOL programmers are doomed to go the way of the Edsel. Despite predictions to the contrary, the world kept revolving around its axis after Y2K. Yet, the job market for ...

With COVID-19 dealing both a healthcare and an economic crisis, the nation’s governors have been issuing increasingly urgent pleas for skills and supplies. On a Saturday earlier this month, New Jersey ...

The share of searches per million for the programming language COBOL on the job site Indeed grew 707% during the coronavirus crisis. While job seekers are interested in the language — largely used for ...

says that Cobol jobs may still exist. I need to know how that’s possible. Since I was laid off in 2001 I cannot find jobs and have been struggling to find one. I live in major metropolitan area and ...

Last summer, Michael Vu, a 40-year-old independent IT consultant, found himself in a wholly unexpected place midway through his career. He’d signed a three-week contract to help a major U.S. retailer ...

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 ...

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