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 ...

With its ongoing relationship with Microsoft, Micro Focus has helped enterprises migrate mainframe-based COBOL applications to Windows and .NET and now is targeting the cloud.

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 ...

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.

As baby boomers retire, the business processes they used to create their Cobol programs may walk out the door with them. Here's what IT organizations are doing about it.

The Open Mainframe Project is looking to fill a technology skills gap by providing COBOL resources to the public sector. According to the project, more than 10 million people in the United States ...

The programming language Cobol has been around for 61 years in some form or another. For many organizations, that age shows, and people who can keep mainframe-based Cobol applications upright are ...

Since 2009, Allianz has consolidated about 350 servers and two mainframes onto a single mainframe with a core policy administration system built on IBM's Cobol for z/OS. Integration architect Mark ...

The mainframe modernization conundrum has been a long running issue for decades, but with cloud and open source technologies advancing and gaining traction in the enterprise, as well as having the ...