IBM has overhauled how the 50-year-old programming language COBOL runs on its System z mainframes to give COBOL apps a web-friendly facelift. Despite COBOL’s age IBM estimates that more than 200 ...

Apple never had 64bit PowerPC laptops. Which means there never was the situation when someone may release purely 64bit app, they had to provide dual-mode apps. That's what allowed it to switch, ...

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IBM has announced COBOL for Linux on x86 1.1, bringing IBM's COBOL compilation technologies and capabilities to the Linux on x86 environment. According to the IBM announcement, COBOL for Linux on x86 ...

ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--GT Software, a leader in digital transformation and modernization, announces the global distribution and availability of NetCOBOL® for Linux V12.2, which enables customers to ...

Perhaps rather unexpectedly, on the 14th of March this year the GCC mailing list received an announcement regarding the release of the first ever COBOL front-end for the GCC compiler. For the ...

Converting COBOL to Java line by line might seem like a straightforward approach to mainframe modernization, but enterprises that go that route won't be able to fully escape COBOL's clutches, experts ...

That could easily be applied to the COBOL (Common Business-Orientated Language) programming language. COBOL may not be at the top of programmer popularity lists that now include the likes of Rust and ...

Cobol and Node.js may seem like an odd pairing, but a developer has created a link between the two platforms, despite criticisms Linking the old world of programming with the new, a Web developer from ...

I have listened to several presentations (and I think for more than one project) about porting IBM mainframe programs to cheaper hardware by translating the binary to, e.g., C and then compiling that ...