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 ...

Postal Service IT officials have upgraded the service's 15-year-old mainframe system to handle more transactions and lower the cost of operating the system. If you’ve gone to USPS.com to track and ...

Veryant, a COBOL-to-Java vendor, has released vCOBOL Enterprise, a platform to migrate legacy COBOL applications off IBM mainframes. vCOBOL includes an optimized compiler and COBOL-to-Java runtime ...

If you stacked every line of COBOL code remaining in the world, it would easily reach the moon. It’s an open secret that a supposedly dead programming language is still lurking in thousands of data ...

The world’s largest enterprises run their business on Cobol—but can’t nimbly update that code in response to changing business needs due to quality concerns, antiquated processes and loss of ...

After seeing "Walking Away from the Mainframe" and "DevOps and Mainframes Don't Have To Be Enemies" here on Virtualization Review, the folks of COBOL-IT decided to reach out to me to tell their ...