So the county is starting a multiphase project to recompile the code with Micro Focus Visual Cobol and rehost it on Windows servers. An associated VSAM database will also be migrated to SQL Server.

For just one example, COBOL specialist Micro Focus offers "Visual COBOL 5.0 for Visual Studio 2019." Several more for-pay offerings appear in the Visual Studio Marketplace, along with dozens of free ...

So the county is starting a multiphase project to recompile the code with Micro Focus Visual Cobol and rehost it on Windows servers. An associated VSAM database will also be migrated to SQL Server.

COBOL is one of the oldest programming languages still widely used to power critical applications across multiple industries. A February 2022 survey found that there are 775 to 850 billion lines ...

New research on the global scale of the COBOL programming language suggests that there are upwards of 800 billion lines of COBOL code being used by organizations and institutes worldwide, some ...

The Action program was conceived to introduce and maintain Cobol in IT academic programs, in response to fears that such programming and other IT skills.

As shown by recent reports, Cobol is still heavily used by both government and corporate organizations and are in high demand. A new deal is available for 96% off the Enterprise COBOL Programming ...

Cobol, which stands for Common Business Oriented Language, has been the most widely used high-level programming language for business applications during the past 35 years.

One programming language you don't hear much about when covering the Microsoft-centric development beat is COBOL. That changed last week with a tweet from Miguel de Icaza, known for starting GNOME, ...