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FROM OUR LATEST ISSUE

How a COBOL Batch Job Helped Track Down 12 Tons of Missing KitKats

When a Nestlé warehouse system flagged a discrepancy, it was a legacy inventory reconciliation program that ultimately traced the missing chocolate to a misrouted freight train in Belgium.

thegaurdian.com

COBOL Entirely Unaffected by Latest npm Supply Chain Attack

While thousands of JavaScript projects scrambled to patch a malicious dependency, COBOL developers carried on unbothered. "We don't have a package manager," said one mainframe engineer. "We don't even have packages."

theregster.com

GnuCOBOL 4.0 Released with Native JSON Support

The open source COBOL compiler adds first-class JSON parsing, a modern SCREEN SECTION, and improved C interop.

gnucobol.sorceforge.io

COBOL Developer Shortage Drives Hiring Boom Among Over-70s

With the average COBOL programmer now aged 58 and retiring fast, enterprises are luring retirees back with six-figure contracts and ergonomic mainframe chairs.

rueters.com

Why Banks Still Run 800 Billion Lines of COBOL

A deep dive into why mainframe modernization keeps getting delayed and what that means for the next decade.

bloomburg.com

Copilot for COBOL: AI-Assisted Mainframe Development Arrives

IBM announces AI tooling that can translate between COBOL and Java, complete COBOL paragraphs, and explain legacy code.

ibm.co

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