Many years ago, mainframes ruled the world. The only computer that was available to large companies AND was capable of processing large numbers of transactions was a mainframe. Huge computers and ...

Many years ago, mainframes ruled the world. The only computer that was available to large companies AND was capable of processing large numbers of transactions was a mainframe. Huge computers and ...

Editor Bill Wong offers his take on COBOL, Ada contracts, and documentation considerations, and the common thread that ties them together. That could easily be applied to the COBOL (Common ...

Cobol, that mainstay of business programming throughout the 1960s, ’70s and ’80s, is not going away anytime soon. In a Computerworld survey early this year of IT managers at 352 companies, 62% of the ...

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 ...

On top of ventilators, face masks and health care workers, you can now add COBOL programmers to the list of what several states urgently need as they battle the coronavirus pandemic. In New Jersey, ...

The scarcity of Cobol software programmers in Hong Kong is threatening the competitiveness of local banks. Industry officials said without an adequate supply of Cobol programmers, a significant number ...

Hong Kong's financial-services sector, distressed by a lack of Cobol (Common Business-Oriented Language) software programmers, will face an even tighter supply next year. Industry officials pegged the ...