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COBOL keeps on rolling along
Blog Comparatively rare are the times when we hear about COBOL programming these days - unless it’s from a vendor or systems integration specialist perhaps. Rarer still are the times that I speak to developers who say they really want to up their COBOL...
[July 9, 2008, 16:21]
Latest language in Web services: Cobol
News Cobol, the biggest established language in the old-fashioned mainframe environment is set to make the jump to the new world of Web services. Despite Cobol's age, and the age of many of the programs written in Cobol, it is not being replaced, said...
[November 7, 2002, 8:46]
Happy 50th Birthday COBOL
Blog Happy days then as today is the 50th birthday of one of the most pervasive software languages ever produced - COBOL. You might like to know, given that this is its ‘special day’, that the name COBOL was chosen during a meeting of the Short Range...
[September 18, 2009, 17:38]
Easing Cobol into a Web-shaped world
News They say that the secret to integration isn't necessarily to buy a dedicated integration platform: instead, they support techniques like wrapping and componentisation, which allow Cobol system functionality to get reborn into a more open and cross...
[February 4, 2004, 12:45]
Extending COBOL to SOA, Web Services and Beyond: A Look at the Architecture
White Papers With the Micro Focus product line, organizations have the best tools to extend COBOL applications and support the flexibility demands of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). This paper takes a look at how COBOL transactions are transformed into...
[March 10, 2007, 0:00]
Web-enabling COBOL applications
News Many enterprises have generated COBOL applications involving huge investments in both money and resources over the last 20 years. Organisations need to deliver their existing COBOL business logic and extend it to the Web.
[August 14, 2002, 19:25]
Modernize Legacy COBOL to AllFusion Gen Model-Driven Architecture
White Papers Attend this webcast to learn how to modernize the legacy COBOL applications to new platforms and architectures using AllFusion Gen.
[November 28, 2004, 23:00]
Cobol moves into Amazon's cloud
News Micro Focus is extending its Enterprise Cloud Services to support Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), allowing businesses to shift their existing Cobol applications to Amazon's infrastructure. The move, announced on Tuesday, follows Micro Focus's...
[January 15, 2009, 14:39]
Introducing Micro Focus Net Express to Develop and Extend COBOL Applications Within .NET
White Papers This paper will introduce the capabilities of Micro Focus Net Express that allows COBOL to operate within the .NET environment. The paper discusses how Micro Focus helps to extend and modernize COBOL applications reusing existing code within the...
[July 2, 2007, 1:00]
Easing Cobol into a Web-shaped world
Talkback After seeing the huge amount of Java Junk that's accumulating out there, I'm not so inclined to be snotty about COBOL any more. COBOL code has stayed around because it's possible to write reasonably good code without a genius IQ (read: COBOL...
[February 4, 2004, 19:57]
MS, Micro Focus team to shine COBOL apps
News Despite the rush to languages such as C, C++ and Java, Micro Focus claims over 150 billion lines of COBOL code are still in use today, often running mission critical applications in very large organisations.
[February 5, 1998, 10:19]
RM Cobol Data Entry Program Generator
Downloads This will produce a complete program for data entry and maintenance for RM Cobol file. Save hours with this utility, just fill a template file, specifying the display, fields and file names, and you'll get the source code that when compiled...
[January 30, 2007, 11:28]
Happy 50th Birthday COBOL
Blog Comment NB: a CTO once said to me, “There’s no such thing as legacy systems, it’s just older software that still works like it’s supposed to. Hehe very good.
[September 19, 2009, 0:37]
What does the future hold for COBOL?
News Although technologies such as Java and XML continue to dominate headlines, and new architectures like WebSphere and .NET gain momentum, the need to improve return on IT investment is forcing organisations to find better ways to develop, transform...
[August 8, 2002, 11:48]
Why you should hire the COBOL guy
News The COBOL veteran had to fight for processor time against dozens of other programmers and hundreds of users. And to work effectively in an environment like this, programmers had to have certain qualities that you can pretty much count on finding in...
[November 29, 2002, 10:03]
Easing Cobol into a Web-shaped world
Talkback The new COBOL and all of the extensions may be the greatest thing ever, but without an 800-pound corporate gorilla to champion it, market it, and generally beat the drum, it simply won't fly. Plus, you may want to think about if the new plugins are...
[July 21, 2005, 21:11]
IBM VisualAge Cobol
Downloads Provides a complete offering of compatible, cross platform, cross product compilers which support OS/390�, MVS, VM, VSE/ESA, AS/400�, AIX�, OS/2�, and Windows� NT. IBM gives you the tools you need to amplify your program development and...
[July 18, 2000, 7:00]
100 years of Grace Hopper
News For most people who work in IT, the programming language Cobol is as dead as the dodo. Yet Grace Hopper, the woman credited with establishing Cobol as the language of business, would be pleased to know that 100 years after her birth, the language...
[December 8, 2006, 12:37]
New tech degree to include legacy app migration
News A degree course that aims to tackle the perceived lack of technologists with business skills will also cover the issue of migrating from legacy applications such as Cobol. Cobol migration specialist Micro Focus announced on Wednesday that it has...
[August 22, 2007, 17:22]
'IT industry is ageist' says Intel chairman
Talkback Craig Barrett is right to point out that some companies may need to re-evaluate their existing IT systems, as COBOL and Fortran programmers reach retirement age. However, with 80 per cent of all companies still reliant on their "legacy" systems and...
[March 15, 2006, 17:12]
