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CIO Topics Trending Now For COBOL

Here are COBOL programming topics trending now for the CIO, CTO, senior IT executive or information systems director.

>  The Developing Role of the CIO, and Why It's Changing the Way We Do Business

IDG Connect, February 19, 2013 – The fundamentals of the CIO role continue to be associated with the strategic planning, implementation, and adaption of technology as it pertains to the business' needs. However, the process, tools, and scope of options with which these objectives are obtained is rapidly altering the way we do business.

>  WA Insurance Commission slashes IT costs with modernisation project

CIO Australia, November 8, 2012 – Faced with the increasing cost of maintaining an IBM Z9 mainframe and dwindling numbers of COBOL specialists… "The licensing and maintenance costs for our mainframe – irrespective of the number of users and/or COBOL applications – were pretty much the same," said Glenn Myers, CIO, Insurance Commission of WA.

>  How to Prepare for the Mobile Explosion

CIOZone, September 27, 2012 – While many may not consider COBOL for adapting business applications to support mobile use… Developers are able to modernize COBOL applications to support new mobile applications across a wide number of technical platforms.

>  Brain drain: Where COBOL systems go from here

ComputerWorld, May 21, 2012 – David Brown, managing director of the IT transformation group at Bank of New York Mellon, says he's concerned about finding new COBOL programmers…

>  Allianz taps finance IT overhauls for COBOL skills

iTnews Australia, May 16, 2012 – Allianz chief information officer Steve Coles said it would continue "[leveraging] what we have". Coles said the "only driver" for Allianz to move off its COBOL application stack in the near future was a shortage of COBOL developers…

>  COBOL on the mainframe: Does it have a future?

Techworld, March 15, 2012 – That's the situation faced by Jim Gwinn, chief information officer for the USDA's Farm Service Agency. FSA will move off of its end-of-life COBOL mainframe systems…

The anticipated exit of institutional knowledge and shortage of COBOL programmers were also primary drivers behind NYSE Euronext's decision to reengineer one million lines of COBOL on a mainframe… Steven Hirsch, chief architect and chief data officer, cites the need to make changes very rapidly as another key reason the NYSE abandoned COBOL.

When it comes to hiring new COBOL programmers, Jonathan J. Miller, director of information systems and services for Saginaw County, is struggling. And like many government IT organisations that have suffered from budget cuts, he doesn't have much to offer those in-demand COBOL programmers.

>  COBOL and the CIO

It's a COBOL world! Blog, May 30, 2011 – I had the opportunity to attend a CIO Forum. Two topics at the top of everyone's list: cutting costs and mobile devices.

To help with cutting costs... why not reuse the business logic that has been captured in the COBOL code and repurpose it?

To help with the challenge presented by all of these new mobile devices, again, use your COBOL programming assets and provide your users new ways to access the information they need.



COBOL Jobs Outlook

Recent articles and discussions about the outlook for COBOL jobs:

>  The COBOL programming language remains in demand

The Australian, March 07, 2013 – MORE than 70 per cent of academic leaders believe that organisations will continue to rely on applications built using COBOL for the next 10 years or more.

>  Hourly Rate for Skill: COBOL -- IBM

Updated: January 24, 2013 – Key Statistics for COBOL -- IBM Salaries and Jobs. More Charts for Skill: COBOL -- IBM

>  What Is the Pay Scale for a COBOL Programmer?

By Kathy Adams McIntosh – COBOL remains a prominent programming language used in many companies. Companies still require the services of COBOL programmers, choosing to recruit and hire these individuals.

>  Manchester COBOL Jobs, Average Salary for COBOL Skills

IT Jobs Watch – The first part of the table looks at the demand for COBOL programming skills in IT jobs advertised for the Manchester region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited COBOL over the 3 months to 25 January 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

>  Top IT Skills and Salaries In 2013

JiansNet – Also there is still demand for developers with COBOL background. Average Salaries: COBOL $85,847.

>  The future of COBOL: Why it won't go away soon

By Brian Bloom, January 10, 2012 – The question of when COBOL will meet its demise has been debated for years now. But there is general agreement that the Common Business Oriented Language - COBOL will be alive and kicking well into this century.



User Articles

Here is a collection of COBOL articles, technical tips, white papers, and COBOL application programs submitted to COBUG by users. They should be of interest to the COBOL community:

A COBOL mySQL solution

How do I make a COBOL program that will run on a mobile device, like iPad?

Is COBOL still relevant?

Specifying Program Design Logic Using Modified Structured Diagrams - MSD, Mainframe Detailed Design

Mainframe Detailed Design - Part 2

The COBOL Compiler - Hidden Benefits

COBOL Programming Design Patterns, Introduction to Batch Processing

Please, Not Another 50 Years

COBOL IF ELSE END-IF - Technical Tip

Believe It or Not

Beware of SQL (Structured Query Language)

Wake Up and Smell the Roses

The Future of the Mainframe

COBOL Dynamic Software Productivity is Still Available

What Does The Future Hold For COBOL

COBOL Costly Judgement Errors

COBOL Program Examples




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News Articles

 >  Heirloom Computing Partners With CloudBees to Move Mainframe Workloads to the Cloud
Fremont, CA, January 30, 2013 – Heirloom Computing Inc. today announced a new partnership with Java Platform as a Service (PaaS) provider CloudBees. With the partnership, Heirloom will help IT managers lower costs and modernize their COBOL-based mainframe workloads by deploying them to the cloud, utilizing Heirloom Elastic COBOL and the CloudBees Platform.

 >  GT Software Expands Enterprise Modernization Capabilities with NEO Suite® of Solutions and NetCOBOL® Compilers
Atlanta, GA, June 28, 2012 – GT Software, a leading provider of technology solutions for enterprise COBOL modernization, today announced the company has become the primary marketing, sales, and technical support organization for the NEO Suite of solutions.

 >  IBM Says Mainframe Technology Still Relevant; Others Disagree
Common business-oriented language is also on the decline. The COBOL programming 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 COBOL applications used by cloud-based systems.

 >  Dell Buys Application Modernization Firm Clerity
Dell said Tuesday it has purchased COBOL 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, a product of Mattel--an AS/400 COBOL shop that was once featured on the cover of AS/400 Technology SHOWCASE magazine.

 >  COBOL Into the Clouds
Does COBOL have a place in cloud computing? Cloud computing is about services, not languages.
COBOL Product News

 >   Micro Focus Changes The Face Of Terminal Emulation With Release Of Rumba
New Delhi: 17 January 2013
Rumba+ brings improved user efficiency across mobile, web and Windows devices through risk-free green screen modernization.

 >   Micro Focus Launches Enterprise Developer Personal Edition
New Delhi: 03 January 2013
Introducing new Free-of-Charge Integrated Development Environment for IBM mainframe COBOL application modernization. The product comes with smart editing, syntax checking and compilation to create a simple way to modernize, develop and maintain COBOL mainframe applications.

 >   Online Launch Event: Introducing Oracle Tuxedo 12c The new Oracle Tuxedo 12c offers unique advantages for COBOL applications. It's the highest performing, most scalable and robust application server to help you develop or rehost mission-critical COBOL applications on traditional Linux/UNIX servers, engineered systems such as Oracle Exalogic, and enterprise clouds. With all the innovations in this release and the new 12c release of Oracle Tuxedo application runtimes for CICS, IMS, and batch, you can migrate your COBOL mainframe applications faster and cheaper with lower risk.

 >   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.

 >   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 COBOL compilers for z/OS.

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