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 ...

A new deal is available for 96% off the Enterprise COBOL Programming Bundle. This 2 course bundle contains 14 hours of instruction on how to program in Cobol for the enterprise. As shown by recent ...

With states issuing pleas for volunteer coders, we set out to learn more about the woman-invented language powering the mainframe computers that process unemployment claims, and why there’s a shortage ...

David Brown is worried. As managing director of the IT transformation group at Bank of New York Mellon, he is responsible for the health and welfare of 112,500 Cobol programs — 343 million lines of ...

You’d think a computer programming language created in 1959 would be outdated — but you’d be incredibly wrong. Most people know Java and C++, but good ol’ COBOL is still alive and kicking. In the US, ...

Here's an unexpected side effect of the pandemic: increased demand for COBOL programmers. The need seems to be particularly acute among states whose unemployment systems were originally written in the ...

The share of searches per million for the programming language COBOL on the job site Indeed grew 707% during the coronavirus crisis. While job seekers are interested in the language — largely used for ...

In our mania for the new, it’s convenient to forget just how long the “old” stays with us. Take COBOL, for example. The venerable programming language turns 60 this month and, as Steven J.

Sometimes, technology is a reasonable excuse for a holdup. But in the case of the unemployment benefits that are part of the $2.2 trillion CARES Act, processing delays are not due to a glitch, but the ...