FairCom Corporation announced a new solution for COBOL environments, designed to expose previously inaccessible silos of COBOL data to open access methods. c-treeACE for COBOL is intended to "marry ...

When I started out as a programmer all those years ago, I was coding in COBOL using IBM Mainframes running MVS with IMS and DB2 Databases. Those were the days! Of course, the death of COBOL has always ...

NetCOBOL for .NET's verifiable code combined with Microsoft SQL Server "Yukon" support for Common Language Runtime server-side procedures enables reuse of COBOL routines. At the opening of Microsoft ...

For decades, mainframes and COBOL-based systems have been the backbone of enterprise computing, powering industries such as banking, insurance, healthcare, and government. Despite the rise of modern ...

Opinion: From COBOL and C to Linux and SQL, the unglamorous software that keeps the world running refuses to disappear ...

Perhaps rather unexpectedly, on the 14th of March this year the GCC mailing list received an announcement regarding the release of the first ever COBOL front-end for the GCC compiler. For the ...

COBOL — short for common business-oriented language — isn’t going anywhere. Released in 1960 and standardized in 1968, COBOL was developed by the Conference on Data Systems Languages to handle ...

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 ...

While the future is uncertain, the decades-old programming language running on mainframes proved its staying power during the pandemic. Now, more professionals are needed. Image: iStockphoto/Deagreez ...