Tom Jodel, who is himself a programmer, interviewed his mother, who works as an IBM mainframe COBOL programmer at a major bank, about banking systems. Jodel's mother started in-house training at ...

While the future is uncertain, the decades-old programming language running on mainframes proved its staying power during the pandemic. Now, more professionals are needed. Image: iStockphoto/Deagreez ...

On3, 2026, Anthropic unveiled Claude Code, an AI tool capable of modernizing decades-old COBOL systems in months rather than years.

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 ...

If you know how to code COBOL, the state of New Jersey wants to hear from you. Systems that power unemployment benefits in New Jersey are running off of 40-year-old mainframes that require COBOL New ...

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The 60-year-old programming language that powers a huge slice of the world’s most critical business systems needs programmers Some technologies never die—they just fade into the woodwork. Ask the ...

Anthropic's AI-powered computer-coding platform Claude can easily help modernize complicated programs written in COBOL (Common Business-Oriented Language), seemingly posing a threat to IBM's (NYSE: ...

Last summer, Michael Vu, a 40-year-old independent IT consultant, found himself in a wholly unexpected place midway through his career. He’d signed a three-week contract to help a major U.S. retailer ...

The COBOL skills gap is neither as extreme nor as straightforward as you might imagine. Here’s what companies can do to keep their COBOL systems running, and what would-be COBOL developers should know ...