COBOL, or Common Business Oriented Language, is one of the oldest programming languages in use, dating back to around 1959. It's had surprising staying power; according to a 2022 survey, there's over ...

Last August, we told you about a project posted on GitHub by Romanian software developer Bizău Ionică that makes it possible for snips of legacy COBOL code to run within the JavaScript code of the ...

Watsonx Code Assistant Adds COBOL-to-Java Translations on IBM Z Your email has been sent IBM announced today watsonx Code Assistant for Z, a generative AI-assisted solution for COBOL-to-Java mainframe ...

Have you ever wanted to just cut and paste some of that legacy COBOL code from mainframe applications into your latest Web application? No? Well, Romanian Web developer Bizău Ionică has developed a ...

The product is targeted at modernizing mainframe applications that run on IBM Z systems, as the number of COBOL developers starts to dwindle. In a bid to help IBM Z systems customers modernize their ...

LegacyCodeBench tests whether AI can understand COBOL well enough to document itaccurately not just generate plausible ...

Consider the following items allegedly gathered from various Gartner reports: * There are 310 billion lines of legacy code operating in the world (65% of all software). * Five billion lines of new ...

To be digitally agile, enterprises must more quickly and frequently update their core mainframe systems—while also shifting stewardship of those applications from retiring COBOL veterans to IT staff ...

Damian Dovarganes / AP The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed aging, inflexible computer systems at the heart of the U.S. economy — and a shortage of experts to fix the problem. This is slowing the ...