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.

Other tools that promise to convert COBOL apps to Java syntax can make code that’s difficult to maintain and unrecognizable to Java developers, according to IBM. And currently available AI ...

COBOL typically worked with what are called flat-file systems or hierarchical databases, such as the Information Management System by IBM or even older file formats such as the Virtual Storage ...

Both of those companies resell our Cobol to their customers. Thirdly, IBM has a tremendously strong focus on Linux and we are effectively IBM's Cobol on Linux solution on all of their platforms ...

In its Defence document, LzLabs claims that IBM has failed to identify "any specific COBOL and PL/1 binary modules, data blocks and code fragments, IBM Customer Information Control System (CICS ...