"But as far as training people to handle COBOL, well, that's simple. Look at vocational schools of years past. Why can't you train a random person just how to d

"But as far as training people to handle COBOL, well, that's simple. Look at vocational schools of years past. Why can't you train a random person just how to do COBOL? " You can. Our local, community college ties its classes to what industry in the area wants. It has classes on COBOL, RPG, and so on. That's because there's quite a bit of it out here in big companies.