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 ...

As the coronavirus crisis in the United States continues, practically every piece of public infrastructure will undergo unprecedented stress. Hospitals in various states have begun exceeding capacity, ...

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A new deal is available for 96% off the Enterprise COBOL Programming Bundle. This 2 course bundle contains 14 hours of instruction on how to program in Cobol for the enterprise. As shown by recent ...

With states issuing pleas for volunteer coders, we set out to learn more about the woman-invented language powering the mainframe computers that process unemployment claims, and why there’s a shortage ...

You’d think a computer programming language created in 1959 would be outdated — but you’d be incredibly wrong. Most people know Java and C++, but good ol’ COBOL is still alive and kicking. In the US, ...

Here's an unexpected side effect of the pandemic: increased demand for COBOL programmers. The need seems to be particularly acute among states whose unemployment systems were originally written in the ...