This project is a set of training materials and labs for a "Getting Started" level course on COBOL. Free and publicly available client tooling is used to interact with the mainframe environment ...

This COBOL program simulates a simple inventory management system, demonstrating basic concepts used in real-world applications on AS/400 and IBM i systems. Showcase COBOL programming on AS/400 and ...

Before servers ran Java, mainframes ran COBOL. Many mainframes today still run COBOL. Developers simply can't refactor a COBOL app and translate it into Java and run it on a server. Instead, this type ...

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 ...

As millions of American workers have been thrown out of work by the Covid-19 pandemic and filed unemployment claims, many states’ computer systems have not been able to keep pace. In early April, ...

Universities are failing to teach students old computer programming languages that are still used by businesses today, according to new research. One of the main languages being left off university ...