The most widely adopted computer language in history, COBOL is now causing a host of problems. It's also dangerously difficult to remove.

Whenever the topic is raised in popular media about porting a codebase written in an ‘antiquated’ programming language like Fortran or COBOL, very few people tend to object to this notion. After all, ...

Investors reacted to Anthropic’s assertion that Claude Code could streamline legacy COBOL modernization, raising concerns about pressure on IBM’s high‑margin mainframe services despite longstanding ...

COBOL was associated with the Y2K phenomenon at the turn of the century, a software problem arising from the inability of ...

COBOL is a computer language used for business data processing and IBM is a leader in that area.

Quick Read IBM (IBM) shed 15.9% year to date after Anthropic’s Claude Code tool threatened to automate COBOL modernization, IBM’s highest-margin consulting work, though Q4 revenue grew 12% to $19.69B ...

Quick Read IBM (IBM) trades at 22.7x trailing P/E after its COBOL dip. AI coding tools like Claude Code are disrupting ...

The product is targeted at modernizing mainframe applications that run on IBM Z systems, as the number of COBOL developers starts to dwindle. In a bid to help IBM Z systems customers modernize their ...

Last August, we told you about a project posted on GitHub by Romanian software developer Bizău Ionică that makes it possible for snips of legacy COBOL code to run within the JavaScript code of the ...

Watsonx Code Assistant Adds COBOL-to-Java Translations on IBM Z Your email has been sent IBM announced today watsonx Code Assistant for Z, a generative AI-assisted solution for COBOL-to-Java mainframe ...

COBOL Colleague uses symbolic machine learning and static analysis to help developers understand and maintain COBOL source code. The same technology could be applied to other programming languages.