IBM has overhauled how the 50-year-old programming language COBOL runs on its System z mainframes to give COBOL apps a web-friendly facelift. Despite COBOL’s age IBM estimates that more than 200 ...

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I have listened to several presentations (and I think for more than one project) about porting IBM mainframe programs to cheaper hardware by translating the binary to, e.g., C and then compiling that ...

IBM has announced COBOL for Linux on x86 1.1, bringing IBM's COBOL compilation technologies and capabilities to the Linux on x86 environment. According to the IBM announcement, COBOL for Linux on x86 ...

PARIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--For the modernization of its strategic applications, AFD has chosen CobolCloud as its new COBOL solution. Committed to the modernization of its strategic COBOL applications, ...

ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--GT Software, a leader in digital transformation and modernization, announces the global distribution and availability of NetCOBOL® for Linux V12.2, which enables customers to ...

Perhaps rather unexpectedly, on the 14th of March this year the GCC mailing list received an announcement regarding the release of the first ever COBOL front-end for the GCC compiler. For the ...

For those who have been anxiously awaiting the release of a GCC-based compiler for the COBOL language, James K. Lowden has a status report with some good news: The GCC Cobol aspirant is now 16 months ...

Cobol and Node.js may seem like an odd pairing, but a developer has created a link between the two platforms, despite criticisms Linking the old world of programming with the new, a Web developer from ...

Converting COBOL to Java line by line might seem like a straightforward approach to mainframe modernization, but enterprises that go that route won't be able to fully escape COBOL's clutches, experts ...