IBM is looking to modernize Cobol applications by bridging its mainframe-oriented Cobol and WebSphere products to Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) and service-oriented architectures. The company will unveil ...

The product is targeted at modernizing mainframe applications that run on IBM Z systems, as the number of COBOL developers starts to dwindle. In a bid to help IBM Z systems customers modernize their ...

COBOL, or Common Business Oriented Language, is one of the oldest programming languages in use, dating back to around 1959. It’s had surprising staying power; according to a 2022 survey, there’s over ...

In context: Despite being designed in 1959, the COBOL programming language is still widely used in applications deployed on mainframe computers. COBOL offers secure, reliable and transactional ...

TL;DR: IBM introduced a few months ago a new AI-powered service designed to assist industries in transitioning from COBOL to newer programming standards. Watsonx can do a lot to modernize the ancient ...

IBM stock was down 10% on Monday afternoon after Anthropic published a blog post about how its Claude Code tool can be used to modernize software written in the COBOL language, which handles ...

International Business Machines (NYSE: IBM) shares took a 13% nosedive on Feb. 23, their worst single-day drop in over 25 years. The culprit? Fears that Anthropic's Claude Code AI would make COBOL ...

The market's knee-jerk reaction makes enough superficial sense. Anthropic's AI-powered computer-coding platform Claude can easily help modernize complicated programs written in COBOL (Common ...

IBM shares dropped 13% on Feb. 23, on fears that Anthropic's Claude Code AI would accelerate COBOL modernization and undermine the mainframe business. AI can help translate legacy code, but it can't ...