There are still a lot of developers for these systems. Updates happen constantly and developers are constantly in need and training-up. For example, credit ca

There are still a lot of developers for these systems. Updates happen constantly and developers are constantly in need and training-up. For example, credit card legal and security compliance updates happen a lot with really strict deadlines that have to be adhered to, or else the credit card issuer gets into hot water. Some organisations choose to merge old features that differ by country get merged in a central trunk with flagable switches. The code bases are very active. My company (not going to say the name here) employ 500+ mainframe engineers, some working on new projects and codebases because mainframe is the preferred platform. If you or anyone else would like to get in contact regarding COBOL or Mainframe in general, especially getting work done, especially in finance, please find my email in my profile.