Become an Expert on COBOL Programs by coding it. Run COBOL Programs with JCL. Basic TSO/ISPF operations are also covered. What you’ll learn This course does not include VSAM. This Course also ...

The challenge with legacy mainframes is not COBOL, but the outdated infrastructure and lack of skilled professionals to maintain them.

Mainframe skills and Cobol programming are now in demand as enterprises scale up to tackle increased online activity due to the coronavirus.

COBOL programmers are disappearing, but the software is still going strong. That’s an opportunity for young, aspiring IT workers!

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 ...

State agencies are struggling to find actively working COBOL engineers who can update their unemployment benefit systems to factor in new parameters for unemployment eligibility.

The characterization of COBOL as an outdated, costly language unable to support modern computing or too hard for younger developers to learn is simply not true.

He suggests that the whole mainframe/Cobol skills crunch is more hype than reality. He says that if Cobol programmers were really in such great demand, we’d see their salaries going up.

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 ...