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COBOL Documentation |
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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.
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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
> 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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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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Press Release: New Transoft product gives benefits of relational databases to organizations using COBOL applications
June 12, Atlanta, GA - Transoft, an expert in innovative modernization
software and services solutions, today announced the launch of CIO,
its new product which enables organizations to maximise the potential
of their existing systems by using COBOL applications with relational
databases (RDBMS), replacing older proprietary COBOL ISAM file handlers.
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Upcoming Events |
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Gartner
Gartner 23rd Annual Application Architecture, Development & Integration Summit
Los Angeles, CA
November 15-17, 2010
Gartner
Gartner Symposium/ITxpo Sydney 2010
Sydney
November 16-18, 2010
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SHARE
SHARE in Anaheim
Anaheim, CA
February 27 - March 4, 2011
Northeast User Groups
Northeast User Groups 21th Anniversary Conference
Framingham, Massachusetts
April 11-13, 2011
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COBOL Job Seekers |
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