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Bob Reselman - Dec 2018, When Bob Reselman decided to learn COBOL he found that current technology IDEs are available. This article offers a good COBOL overview - explaining the structure of COBOL programs along with examples. more...
Programming Languages - December 2018, COBOL remains widely used with billions of lines of code in use and more continually being added. For example, 95 percent of ATM transactions utilize COBOL. Large organizations using COBOL include: Bank of New York Mellon, US Social Security Administration and Commonwealth Bank of Australia. Employers and colleges continue to train COBOL programmers. more...
Evan Koblentz - April 2017 COBOL is super efficient for transaction processing such as bank transactions. This is the real reason why COBOL is not replaced by Java for high volume transaction processing. more...
90 percent of financial transactions and 75 percent of transactions generally are processed by COBOL programs acording to an article in Reg Developer, quoting research by Ovum. more...
Microfocus COBOL continues to be a major player in the COBOL compiler and mainframe software markets. more... <
The COBOL Center with the help of its loyal readers has assembled numerous example COBOL programs that can help you to learn about COBOL. more...
Reuters - April, 2017, the financial sector in the United States is highly reliant on the COBOL programming language. Systems written in COBOL are very efficient in processing banking transactions. Unfortunately, the supply of COBOL knowledgeable programs is dwindling. more...
eWeek article reports on encouraging mainframe trends. IBM reports three consecutive quarters of profits for its mainframe business. New customers are being attracted to the mainframe as it supports everything from a massive multiplayer game server to virtualized Linux servers. more...
TechWorld article reminds us of the huge code base of COBOL and that 70 percent of transactional systems are in COBOL. more...
Computerworld, a leading IT publication, has recognizes the importance of COBOL:
The articles refer to Gartner research that shows that COBOL continues to be widely used for both maintenance and new development.
The legacy skills and COBOL debate continues. Is COBOL dead or alive? Is it worth developing COBOL skills? The lead story is published at news.com.
COBOL is clearly continues to be a major language. Acording to industry sources there is an investment of $1.5 to $5 trillion in COBOL. The number of COBOL transactions executed daily exceeds the number of hits on the Internet. The number of visitors to the COBOL Center remains as great as ever.
Some of the debate points are brought forward by developers with Java and C# skills who say that COBOL is inefficient and "ugly". The use of COBOL is more of a management issue than the need to develop in the prettiest language.
Stay tuned to The COBOL and Mainframe Resource Center for more on the place of COBOL in the twenty first century.
Mike Murach & Associates, an industry leading computer book publisher, announced publication of a new book entitled Murach's Mainframe COBOL (www.murach.com). Today, 90% of all COBOL is running on IBM mainframes so the book focuses on the COBOL skills needed in IBM mainframe shops. more...
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