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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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.
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!