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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 ...

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 ...

Looking to present a new solution to the problem of modernizing COBOL apps, IBM today unveiled Code Assistant for IBM Z, which uses a code-generating AI model to translate COBOL code into Java. Set to ...

However, with the `` Watsonx Code Assistant for Z '' announced by IBM on August 22, 2023, it is possible to naturally convert code written in COBOL to enterprise Java using AI. 'In addition to ...