IBM Corp. said today it’s using its recently announced generative artificial intelligence service watsonx to help enterprises modernize their most business-critical mainframe applications. Watsonx ...

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 ...

There is a reason why young programmers are not flocking to learn COBOL and mainframe skills in their droves. Navigating the reality of maintaining old programs, with none of the creature-features ...

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 ...

[url=http://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?p=29580225#p29580225:b8de1gif said: That's what I said when I found out about Visual COBOL (.NET COBOL). This takes it ...

IBM is developing a generative artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted software development tool to help its customers modernise legacy Cobol applications, The new tool, watsonx Code Assistant for Z, ...

According to a Micro Focus survey, customers plan to maintain or modernize 84 percent of mainframe applications in the near future The IBM z14 was unveiled in 2017 to much fanfare, and the recent ...