COBOL, or Common Business Oriented Language, is one of the oldest programming languages in use, dating back to around 1959. It's had surprising staying power; according to a 2022 survey, there's ...

Watsonx Code Assistant for Z also evaluates that the COBOL code and the Java translation are semantically equivalent and have the same result. AI model will be trained on open source or attributed ...

Despite these issues, COBOL persists for several reasons. First, replacing billions of lines of code across the banking industry is a tremendous challenge.

For decades the rapidly ageing COBOL developer population has been kept in work looking after mainframes with legacy code so old they make Enigma look like a spring chicken. COBOL has been running ...

IBM is now using generative AI large language models (LLMs) to help bring COBOL applications into the modern era.

Created in 1959, Cobol was designed to simplify the process of writing programs by using a syntax more easily understandable by non-programmers. A considerable amount of Cobol code still runs today.

Before the COBOL cowboys die out Biggish blue has a cunning plan to use AI to convert COBOL code into something a little more modern. More than three trillion dollars’ worth of transactions are ...

The IDE extended benefits to my Cobol code editing, such as Intellisense type-ahead prompting and displaying data information when hovering over variables.

A shareware DOS compiler (Cobol 650) is available from www.flexus.com; however, it is outdated, there is no known source code, and the author died several years ago, according to Flexus.

IBM's mainframes are still widely used, and many applications run on ancient COBOL code. With a dwindling pool of programmers capable of modernizing COBOL applications, IBM's new AI code assistant ...

The finance industry along with other companies and government agencies are still relying on Cobol code from the 1970s.