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Welcome to our COBOL programming portal with
references from COBOL mainframe to PC where you will find resources on
COBOL jobs, compilers, program code examples, tutorials, user groups,
and many other COBOL programming language resources.
The COBOL User Groups (COBUG) global community consists of IT
management, COBOL programmers,
consultants, database administrators, developers,
system analysts, students, and vendors.
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COBOL Jobs |
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Here are a few of the recent COBOL jobs posted on the COBUG job site:
Title: COBOL Programmer/Analyst
Experience:
A strong background in COBOL programming, ideally on an Open VMS platform,
and are comfortable working in a legacy-system environment that is transitioning
to new technology.
Location: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Duration:
Title: COBOL Developers
Experience:
At least 2 years experience in COBOL Developer experience.
The COBOL Developer are assists in delivery of high quality solutions to
clients in response to specific business requirements.
The COBOL Developer has some specific product, technology, or industry-related specialized skills and works with proposals, requirements, designs, implementations and production projects/engagements.
Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota
Duration:
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COBOL News |
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News Articles
> IBM Says Mainframe Technology Still Relevant; Others Disagree
Common business-oriented language (Cobol) programming is also on
the decline. The language is used to execute large-scale batch and
transaction processing operations on mainframe computers.
According to a survey of 357 IT professionals that was ...
> Dell Acquires Make Technologies
Make Technologies provides software and services that modernize
traditional applications used by cloud-based systems. The cloud-based
products from the company have the capacity to cut cost, reduce risk
and re-engineer applications.
> Dell Buys Application Modernization Firm Clerity
Dell said Tuesday it has purchased application modernization vendor
Clerity Solutions, in its second enterprise software-related acquisition
news this week.
> COBOL at 50: Same Age as Barbie, But More Like Rodney
Last Thursday, May 28, was COBOL's 50th birthday. COBOL may
share the same age as Barbie, that icon of American ideals about
beauty and consumerism, and a product of Mattel--an AS/400 shop that
was once featured on the cover of AS/400 Technology SHOWCASE magazine.
> The 2009 IT career survival guide
Cobol skills can be great job insurance, for example.
And don't forget about skills that have been hot for a
while and thus tend to be neglected, such as open source,
.Net, and Java.
> COBOL Into the Clouds
Does COBOL have a place in cloud computing?
Cloud computing is about services, not languages. Many people
would tell you that you need to start learning Ruby or Python in
order to use cloud technology.
> Alchemy Solutions Shows Moving COBOL to .NET Isn't Magic
Alchemy Solutions, established as a subsidiary of TMV Holdings,
purchased Fujitsu's NetCOBOL legacy modernization portfolio and
distribution rights outside Japan. Under the agreement, Alchemy
Solutions will own, market, sell, support and enhance the .NET
legacy modernization portfolio, including NeoKicks NeoBatch,
NeoSort and NeoData.
> Micro Focus Snatches Relativity, Expands App Modernization
Micro Focus, a U.K.-based software company that strongly believes
in aligning software with business requirements, broadening its
product line, and extended its geographical reach, last week bought
Relativity Technologies, a company with a similar philosophy and
product set, but with a slightly different niche.
> Legacy modernization opens Windows for publisher
"It was hard at the time to convince people that Windows could run
what they were seeing on the mainframe," he said of the book
publisher's transfer of five million lines of COBOL to a .NET
environment.
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Product News
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ATERAS and M Corp Complete IDMS Conversion of Largest Volume U.S. IDMS System for California State Agency
Project included transformation of IDMS CICS COBOL to COBOL CICS DB2
Dallas, April 17, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/
ATERAS & M Corp announced today the successful conversion of the
State of California Employment Development Department (EDD) IDMS COBOL
applications to COBOL CICS DB2.
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Veryant Announces New COBOL Training Class
"COBOL Programming for Developers"
Chicago, April 02, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE)
Veryant, the COBOL technology innovator, has announced that it will offer
a five-day COBOL training class, "COBOL Programming for Developers."
The new class will help developers unfamiliar with COBOL quickly gain
competency with the programming language.
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Canam Software Brings JSON Processing to COBOL Applications
Mississauga, ON, Canada (PRWEB) September 14, 2011
Canam Software Labs, Inc. (Canam), the developer and manufacturer
of automated XML software integration solutions, is pleased to
announce the immediate availability of JSON support for its leading
integration solution for enterprise COBOL applications, XML Thunder.
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What is XML Thunder Light?
Convert XML, XSD or DTD to/from COBOL COPYBOOK or C header files with
XML Thunder Light, a free software tool. Converting is quick and easy.
GET your free copy of XML Thunder Lite.
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Cloud Automation for z/OS: Cloud Compiling and First National Technology Solutions Partner to Provide Virtual Compiling as a Service for the Mainframe
ST. PAUL, Minn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Cloud Compiling announced today that
it has entered into a partnership with First National Technology
Solutions (FNTS), a subsidiary of First National of Nebraska, to provide
a state of the art data center to host Cloud Compiling SaaS, a suite of
virtual language compilers for z/OS.
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Cloud Computing for the Mainframe: Cloud Compiling to Unveil Virtualized Language Compilers for z/OS at SHARE
ST. PAUL, Minn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Cloud Compiling announced today that
it will unveil its family of virtualized COBOL, PL/1, Fortran and C/C++
compilers for z/OS at the upcoming SHARE technology conference, taking
place from August 1-5, 2010 in Boston, MA.
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Press Release: Just published: Murach's Oracle SQL and PL/SQL
Mike Murach & Associates has just published a new book for developers
entitled Murach's Oracle SQL and PL/SQL. It teaches how to write
efficient SQL statements to extract and update the data in an
Oracle database.
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IBM COBOL Café
IBM created this online Café community to provide in-depth information
to help you take advantage of IBM's COBOL technology.
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Upcoming Events |
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