Information technology modernization specialist Rocket Software Inc. is integrating generative artificial intelligence and adding support for Arm processors in its line of Cobol modernization products ...

Morgan Stanley is now aiming artificial intelligence at one of enterprise software’s biggest pain points, and one it said Big Tech hasn’t quite nailed yet: helping rewrite old, outdated code into ...

Whenever the topic is raised in popular media about porting a codebase written in an ‘antiquated’ programming language like Fortran or COBOL, very few people tend to object to this notion. After all, ...

COBOL — short for common business-oriented language — isn’t going anywhere. Released in 1960 and standardized in 1968, COBOL was developed by the Conference on Data Systems Languages to handle ...

The Social Security Administration is facing a potential overhaul of its computer systems, one that could disrupt the benefits of millions of Americans who rely on these payments. The Department of ...

The so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is starting to put together a team to migrate the Social Security Administration’s (SSA) computer systems entirely off one of its oldest ...

Some people think tens of millions of dead people are collecting Social Security checks. That's not true. What's really going on is people don't understand its old, underlying technology. The saga of ...

Discussions of Social Security Administration (SSA) fraud from Elon Musk have prompted criticism over the federal government's use of COBOL, a software system that critics consider outdated. Musk ...

As DOGE throws out the rule book for government tech, it’s time we plan for the worst—and look to each other for courage and support. This story is part of MIT Technology Review’s "America Undone” ...

An aging programming language known as COBOL underpins much of the U.S. financial industry, but it has fallen out of favor among coders. This sets up a problem when systems run into glitches or need ...

We list the best COBOL online courses, to make it simple and easy to learn the legacy COBOL programming language online. Although old, it still remains essential for many systems used by governments ...

Cobol still forms the backbone of many crucial financial and administrative systems, with high usage in The Netherlands due to its early and adept automation of the economy. Cobol was, and remains, ...