TechBeacon

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

COBOL, How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.

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Enterprise 130

TechBeacon

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

COBOL is more than 60 years old, and few new computer science graduates have ever written a single line of COBOL code. Yet it remains one of the most commonly used programming languages, especially in large enterprises.

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DevOps.com

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Every few years an alarm goes up about the shortage of COBOL programmers, and then it dies down. The post Why It’s Time to Migrate Away From COBOL appeared first on DevOps.com.

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DevOps.com

OCTOBER 1, 2020

COBOL is under fire, and as states such as New Jersey make headlines following vital system crashes that its citizens depend on—such as unemployment benefits—organizations are pointing fingers at the programming language as the source of their technological woes.

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TechBeacon

JUNE 19, 2020

If 60 is indeed the new 30, COBOL is still in its prime—and many customers are taking advantage of that fact by modernizing their legacy applications to use today's technology, from cloud to XML and DevOps.

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DevOps.com

MAY 14, 2020

The post DRY Comes to COBOL in IBM Z Development appeared first on DevOps.com. Just about every CS student is taught that duplicating code in an application is an accident waiting to happen. The hazard is that you might alter a piece of code in one place, only to leave another identical instance of that code unchanged. […].

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TechBeacon

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

So it's amazing that, 60 years after the COBOL programming language first came on the scene, many COBOL applications are still with us. Over time, applications become stale and clunky, and perhaps just stop working altogether. That's an incredible testament to the resilience of the language.

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DevOps.com

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

In the world of DevOps, the Agile Manifesto and countless other application delivery frameworks, one has to wonder how an anachronism such as the programming language COBOL (common business-oriented language) has managed to remain relevant. The post Why COBOL Still Matters After 60 Years appeared first on DevOps.com.

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TechBeacon

APRIL 6, 2020

Much of the software now in use worldwide was written in COBOL. Because COBOL can be harder to maintain due to a shortage of experienced COBOL programmers, the inevitable security vulnerabilities that exist in this code can be a serious problem.

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TechBeacon

APRIL 14, 2022

It’s something that you keep tucked away in the server room: your company’s mainframe and the COBOL apps it runs. The most interesting shapeshifter around today isn't in the movies.

Enterprise 52

Enterprise 52

DevOps.com

JANUARY 10, 2020

Interestingly though, while some IT departments have updated legacy systems, COBOL code has continued to be a mainstay. In fact, COBOL just turned 60 and many are […]. The post Is COBOL Here to Stay? Five Signs IT is Ready to Modernize appeared first on DevOps.com.

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InfoBest

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

It is estimated that around 220 billion lines of COBOL are still being used today. When that is nonexistent, which frequently happens in the case of older programming languages that have gone out of fashion, like COBOL development projects. The wonders of COBOL development. But you don’t need to fear Legacy code.

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DevOps.com

DECEMBER 23, 2018

The post Best of 2018: The Beauty of the COBOL Programming Language appeared first on DevOps.com. Following is the first in our weeklong series of the Best of 2018. Well-written code is a work of art. Always has been, always will be. A programmer pulls a thought pretty much out of […].

Programming 111

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TechBeacon

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Sixty years after COBOL's debut, programs written in the programming language are still quietly running some of the world's largest companies.

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DevOps.com

MARCH 9, 2021

The post Open Mainframe Project Kicks Off First Quarter with New Members, Additional COBOL and Linux on Z Resources and Launch of the 2nd Annual Open Mainframe Summit appeared first on DevOps.com.

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The Crazy Programmer

MAY 11, 2023

After that, she was involved in the development of COBOL, a programming language that was designed for business applications. COBOL is still used in many financial and administrative systems. This made coding easier for programmers because they can use mnemonic symbols instead binary numbers.

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CIO

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Taking on a monolithic COBOL and IMS-based monstrosity built in 1989 isn’t a challenge; it’s suicide. Starting with a component or sub-service makes the scoping of new features simpler and leads to less demand for these features. This makes it easier to complete the effort and have success.

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TechBeacon

OCTOBER 20, 2021

DevOps and mainframes are like peanut butter and chocolate—each great on its own, but both better together. When organizations move to DevOps, they often struggle with integrating mainframe applications into the new process. Too often, they expect to need to go through all sorts of gyrations to incorporate the mainframe applications and data.

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DevOps.com

DECEMBER 1, 2023

The BMC AMI DevX Code Insights tool uses machine learning algorithms to break apart monolithic COBOL mainframe apps into subprograms that are easier to update and refactor.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

JUNE 8, 2021

A few months ago, I was asked if there were any older technologies other than COBOL where we were in serious danger of running out of talent. But there’s a bigger question lurking behind Fortran and COBOL: what are the ingredients of a technology shortage? Why is running out of COBOL programmers a problem?

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Invid Group

AUGUST 16, 2021

An extreme example would be an old COBOL mainframe program that some developers rewrite in.NET to run on a modern PC. Most companies don’t have old COBOL software running on a mainframe. While you can likely find a few React developers today to improve a web app, there aren’t many COBOL programmers left.

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CIO

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Given the scarcity of experts in legacy languages like Cobol – on which many mainframe applications are built – Generative AI also provides the bridge that allows a broader range of engineers and coding experts to tackle modernisation and migration projects.

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Dzone - DevOps

MAY 13, 2022

I discuss COBOL and similar legacy systems too. When writing this, my primary focus is on updating an old Java 6 era style J2EE code to the more modern Spring Boot/Jakarta EE code. However, I don’t want to go into the code and try to keep this generic.

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The Daily WTF

AUGUST 31, 2021

Tammy 's company has some veteran developers who spent most of their careers developing in COBOL, and now' they're developing in C#. As sufficiently determined programmers, they're finding ways to write COBOL in C#. Methods tend towards long- one thousand lines of code isn't unusual. Longer methods exist.

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The Daily WTF

JUNE 24, 2021

"Apparently, it's so bad that they're about to ditch us and revert to their original COBOL system." "Yes—by Dawie, our top COBOL guru. " Well, a COBOL guy couldn't be expected to be an expert on SQL or relational databases. " "Oh, wow," George said, swiveling away from his keyboard. "Have

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TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2022

At the same time, the incumbent banks are stuck with their mainframes, IBM contracts, and software written in COBOL,” he wrote via email.” For his part, Valar Ventures’ Andrew McCormack said that financial services companies can “leverage whatever technologies they want to provide better customer experiences.”. “At

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Invid Group

JANUARY 13, 2022

They create some specs, and along the way, somebody reads that many large banks still use COBOL. Not wanting to be a “small bank,” they create an entire design around COBOL for the backend. The problem, of course, is that when they go to outsource it, they’ll have a hard time finding COBOL programmers!

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CIO

APRIL 1, 2024

They also face challenges finding enough workers experienced in working with old programming languages, such as COBOL. Today CIOs and their teams face big challenges converting legacy code to modern languages, often losing data flow in the process.

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The Crazy Programmer

MARCH 3, 2023

The concept of machine-independent programming languages COBOL and FORTRAN made it easier for people with no technical background to use computers. The second-generation computers were smaller and had less time taken than first-generation computers. They also had magnetic core memory which increased the storage capacity.

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Beyond B2B

APRIL 29, 2020

A good workman never blames his tools for a bad job; so when the half-century old programming language COBOL got some unwarranted press lately, I thought I should look into it.

Applications 93

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Apiumhub

MARCH 8, 2023

And last but not least, Ana María Prieto, the first programmer in Madrid (and probably in Spain) that wrote language in COBOL and machine language.

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Programming Engineering Telecommunications Technical Review 79

Datavail

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Worse, despite its launch more than 60 years ago, the coding language COBOL remains the most popular computer language at this level. Finding COBOL-literate programmers is becoming more difficult every day. Many of the state’s unemployment reporting systems also rely on COBOL. In the U.S., the situation is equally dire.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

MAY 15, 2020

Web Assembly COBOL Pong — The silliest flex of the week: Pong written in COBOL, compiled to WebAssembly. All the suggestions are very good. VR-DOS — an experimental “PC running DOS” emulator inside a VR environment.

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The Daily WTF

APRIL 3, 2024

That's is the situation ML was in: a state government wanted to replace their COBOL mainframe monster with a "maintainable" J2EE/WebSphere based application. Gone would be the 3270 dumb terminals, and here would be desktop PCs running web browsers. ML's team did the initial design work, which the state was very happy with.

Applications 64

Applications Government Advertising Budget 64

CIO

MARCH 1, 2024

The conference is named after Admirable Grace Murray Hopper, who is considered among the first computer programmers, and whose work is directly responsible for the development of COBOL.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

MAY 7, 2020

Millions of lines of COBOL JCLs running flawless on a battery. Tested an entire bank’s mainframe COBOL on it. IBM System/370 on a Raspberry Pi — I have been running a full IBM System/370 Mainframe on a $5 Raspberry Pi Zero for ~5 years. About 7 times faster System/370.

Technical Review 54

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

APRIL 20, 2020

Mainframes Are Having a Moment (IEEE Spectrum) — Although many college and university computer science departments have cut back or dropped mainframe programming curriculum to focus on more modern languages and technologies, faculty and staff at others report an uptick in interest in Cobol and related classes.

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Government Programming Applications Report 54