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Originally envisioned as a stopgap measure, COBOL quickly established itself as the go-to programming language for large mainframes and operating systems. That was especially true in finance, where ...

According to IBM, COBOL stands for common business-oriented language and is a high-level compiled programming language developed for business data processing needs. COBOL is an over 50-year-old ...

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Tom Jodel, who is himself a programmer, interviewed his mother, who works as an IBM mainframe COBOL programmer at a major bank, about banking systems. Jodel's mother started in-house training at ...

Most of the "COBOL cowboys" are retiring and replacements are in short supply. IBM has built a generative AI-powered code assistant (watsonx) that helps convert all that dusty old COBOL code to a ...

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IBM's mainframes are still widely used, and many applications run on ancient COBOL code. With a dwindling pool of programmers capable of modernizing COBOL applications, IBM's new AI code assistant ...

COBOL offers secure, reliable and transactional performance, and it is still managing around 70% of modern bank transactions worldwide. IBM is launching a new AI-powered service designed to ...

Microsoft and IBM are betting that it can,” is a new Fortune feature by Ben Weiss that delves into the Cobol calamity. As Cobol gets older, it's been challenging for Wall Street to find people ...

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IBM’s clients at some point may want to modernise mission critical applications. So, they may, for example, want to convert an app written in Cobol programming language to Java, because there ...