Chris O'Malley is President and CEO of Compuware, a BMC company, bringing mainframe DevOps to the Autonomous Digital Enterprise. You’ve probably seen more headlines about COBOL this year than in the ...

The Open Mainframe Project (OMP), an open source initiative that enables collaboration across the mainframe community to develop shared tool sets and resources, has launched a COBOL Working Group, ...

Mainframe computers are often seen as ancient machines—practically dinosaurs. But mainframes, which are purpose-built to process enormous amounts of data, are still extremely relevant today. If ...

Before servers ran Java, mainframes ran COBOL. Many mainframes today still run COBOL. Developers simply can't refactor a COBOL app and translate it into Java and run it on a server. Instead, this type ...

COBOL — short for common business-oriented language — isn’t going anywhere. Released in 1960 and standardized in 1968, COBOL was developed by the Conference on Data Systems Languages to handle ...

For decades, mainframes and COBOL-based systems have been the backbone of enterprise computing, powering industries such as banking, insurance, healthcare, and government. Despite the rise of modern ...

Until a few months ago, the clearing and billing system for NYSE Group Inc.’s stock options exchange consisted of about 800 discrete Cobol programs running on an IBM mainframe. Today, the entire ...

The legacy programming language that refuses to die is still powering millions of daily transactions, but the difficulties of maintaining and integrating Cobol mainframes make the case for ...