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The latest from across the COBOL and mainframe ecosystem.
Masochistic YouTuber Punishes Himself by Writing a First Person Shooter Entirely in COBOL
In entirely unrelated news, a YouTuber by the name of icitry—whose bio on the site reads simply “try now, suffer later”—has written a whole first-person shooter in freaking COBOL. If you’ve never had ...
The translation trap: Why AI won’t solve the COBOL crisis
Although many banks are still running decades-old platforms, Claudio González argues that this is where AI can make a bigger difference than most realise, by using it to finally decode these legacy sy ...
Can Pegasystems’ (PEGA) New Agentic AI Suite Deepen Its Moat In Enterprise Automation?
Pegasystems recently used its PegaWorld conference to unveil a suite of AI-driven upgrades to Pega Infinity 26, including Pega Infinity Studio, Pega Customer Engagement Studio, Predictable AI pricing ...
Legacy Systems Are The New Zero-Day Vulnerability
For companies still relying on aging legacy systems, AI advancements represent more than just another security scare. ...
Pega Launches AI-Driven Modernization Capability on AWS To Reimagine Legacy Mainframe Apps Into Cloud-Native Systems
Pegasystems Inc. (NASDAQ: PEGA), the enterprise AI software company for mission-critical work, today at PegaWorld® announced the Pega Blueprint AI™ application design agent will be integrated within ...
Mainframe modernization is about trust, not migration
Done right, modernization aligns people, process, and platform innovation to deliver continuous value while protecting the most valuable currency - brand trust.
Mainframe modernization is about trust, not migration
Done right, modernization aligns people, process, and platform innovation to deliver continuous value while protecting the most valuable currency - brand trust.
How Financial Services Companies Can Maintain Mainframes as COBOL Experts Retire
COBOL — short for common business-oriented language — isn’t going anywhere. Released in 1960 and standardized in 1968, COBOL was developed by the Conference on Data Systems Languages to handle ...
A RayCast FPS In COBOL
COBOL is not the first language anyone would ever think of when writing a First Person Shooter– after all , it’s the Common Business Oriented Language, not the Common Game Oriented Language. For ...
COBOL- The 66-year-old program that's running world's biggest banks
There has been a sudden rise in COBOL specialists among Banks and insurance firms, and they are ready to pay higher salaries s to attract and retain developers with COBOL skills.
How this 65-year-old programming language that powers world's 9% ATMs is making companies spend millions to keep it running
Despite its age, COBOL remains the critical backbone of the global financial system, handling trillions daily. As its original developers retire, a severe shortage of skilled programmers has emerged, ...
IBM's z17 mainframe now generally available
IBM's newest mainframe generation, the z17, is now generally available. Announced in April this year, the mainframe has been engineered specifically to support AI capabilities and is the result of ...
CLPS Incorporation Announces AI-Driven COBOL-to-Java Migration Solution to Accelerate Core Banking Modernization
Since its inception in the 1960s, COBOL (Common Business-Oriented Language) has served as the backbone of global financial transaction systems. Valued for its stability and efficient processing ...
CLPS Incorporation Announces AI-Driven COBOL-to-Java Migration Solution to Accelerate Core Banking Modernization
HONG KONG, March 12, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- CLPS Incorporation (the "Company" or "CLPS") (Nasdaq: CLPS) today announced the successful launch of its proprietary AI-driven intelligent migration solution.
AI Depends on Data and COBOL Systems Are Still the Beating Heart of Banking
Artificial intelligence has moved from experimentation to enterprise strategy. Banks are deploying AI to strengthen fraud defenses, accelerate credit decisions, personalize customer engagement, and ...
New life for the mainframe: AI cost savings materialize, modernization efforts pay off
AI adoption is accelerating among mainframe users, and it’s spurring increased usage of the big iron platform, according to Kyndryl’s annual State of Mainframe Modernization Survey. Most mainframe ...
Mainframe Modernization Without the Mayhem: How One Global Bank Cut Costs by 90% with Ververica
Legacy systems weren’t built for today’s demands, but banks don’t have the luxury of rip and replace. Learn how one bank solved this challenge with Ververica. Financial institutions face continuously ...
COBOL to Java Conversion Developer at Sabenza IT & Recruitment
An exciting opportunity is available for a COBOL to Java Conversion Developer with deep experience in Oracle Customer Care and Billing (CC&B). The successful candidate will be responsible for ...
Dumping mainframes for cloud can be a costly mistake
Mainframes were the punchline of jokes in the early days of cloud computing, but their steady dependability is still critical to IT architectures. A certain Fortune 500 financial institution decided ...
Mainframe Modernization Services Market to Reach USD 76.16 Billion by 2032, Growing at a CAGR of 15.1%: Credence Research
Credence Research notes that enterprises across sectors—particularly banking, insurance, healthcare, and government—are accelerating mainframe modernization to align with cloud-first strategies and ...