Ventilators, retired doctors, N95 face masks — all have been in high demand from heads of state and U.S. governors, but now you can add COBOL programmers to that pandemic response list. That's right, ...

With COVID-19 dealing both a healthcare and an economic crisis, the nation’s governors have been issuing increasingly urgent pleas for skills and supplies. On a Saturday earlier this month, New Jersey ...

In April 2020, New Jersey’s governor, Phil Murphy, stepped up to a microphone and told journalists that he was amazed the state still ran its unemployment system on COBOL — a 60-year-old programming ...

says that Cobol jobs may still exist. I need to know how that’s possible. Since I was laid off in 2001 I cannot find jobs and have been struggling to find one. I live in major metropolitan area and ...

The share of searches per million for the programming language COBOL on the job site Indeed grew 707% during the coronavirus crisis. While job seekers are interested in the language — largely used for ...

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 ...

Developing Application Master (AM) and Cobol programs for ICL`s VME mainframe environment has traditionally condemned programmers to an outdated green screen approach - but not any more! Easirun ...