The characterization of COBOL as an outdated, costly language unable to support modern computing or too hard for younger developers to learn is simply not true.

Until a few months ago, the clearing and billing system for NYSE Group Inc.’s stock options exchange consisted of about 800 discrete Cobol programs running on an IBM mainframe. Today, the entire ...

Here are two examples of organizations freeing themselves from mainframe-based Cobol, both using code refactoring techniques and automated refactoring software to modernize their applications.

State agencies are struggling to find actively working COBOL engineers who can update their unemployment benefit systems to factor in new parameters for unemployment eligibility.

As baby boomers retire, the business processes they used to create their Cobol programs may walk out the door with them. Here's what IT organizations are doing about it.