Despite being over 60 years old, common business-oriented language (COBOL) continues to be the backbone of critical financial ...

UK organisations running COBOL are sitting on an average of 12 million lines of code COBOL underpins payroll systems, bank accounts, credit card networks, mortgage and insurance systems.

The new system, which requires a porting of COBOL and Assembly code into Java, is intended to be more modern and sustainable moving forward. One of the digital initiative’s broader goals is to ...

Other tools that promise to convert COBOL apps to Java syntax can make code that’s difficult to maintain and unrecognizable to Java developers, according to IBM. And currently available AI ...

“The challenge many cities and states are facing now is changing their COBOL code fast enough to respond to the increased unemployment payment eligibility in a very short timeframe.” RELATED ...

“Finding the Cobol engineers—how many people know that?” The Roseland, N.J.-based company is exploring the use of generative AI to “translate” its mainframe code from Cobol—a language ...