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I Took a COBOL Course and I Liked It

Jeremy Morgan on April 17, 2020

COBOL is in the news again. Millions of people are filing unemployment claims nearly all at once, and the systems to process them are failing. Why?...
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Dan

FYI COBOL is not batch only. It processes most ATM transactions.
In order to work with real time transactions it uses a product called CICS.

IBM has some new resources for learning COBOL
COBOL Developer Site
Guide to COBOL Education

There is also a free course provided by the Open Mainframe Project.
Scroll down to providers to see a link to sign up for the course through IBM

I signed up for the Open Mainframe course to refresh my memory on COBOL. I took a course on it a long time ago, but have not used it much since then.

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Austin Crim

Hey Jeremy, great job taking modern lessons from a legacy language! I’m a 21 year old COBOL/Javascript dev so I especially resonated with this article. By the way, I love Pluralsight, can’t wait to see how I do on the assessment!