Following the Louisiana Office of Motor Vehicles' outage on March 20, Gov. Jeff Landry declared a State of Emergency Friday morning. In the executive order, Landry extended the expiration date and ...

The COBOL programming language for IBM mainframes. In 1994, IBM dropped support of OS/VS COBOL, which conformed to ANSI 68 and 74 standards and limited a program's address space to 16 bits. IBM's VS ...

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. If COBOL seems as antiquated as the manual typewriter, you’re thinking about it wrong, researchers say. The workhorse coding language ...

Let me tell you about a hot Web scripting language. It’s been ported to almost every computer architecture ever made; its speed and readability are legendary. It’s known to be good with databases.

For decades the rapidly ageing COBOL developer population has been kept in work looking after mainframes with legacy code so old they make Enigma look like a spring chicken. COBOL has been running ...

According to research firm Gartner, 60 percent to 80 percent of IT budgets are used to maintain mainframes and related applications. The problem is not whether mainframes are an appropriate platform ...

Micro Focus has updated its developer platform for the Cobol programming language, adding the ability to run Cobol applications on Microsoft’s Azure cloud service. Visual Cobol R3, released Thursday, ...

SAN JOSE, Costa Rica — The phrase “the future of Cobol” might seem an oxymoron, but in a talk so titled at the Club de Investigacion Tecnologica SA’s software transformation seminar here Friday, ...

The banking industry is making concerted efforts to rejuvenate and alter entrenched perceptions of there being too many slow-paced organizations. However, despite many positive signals that banks are ...