Confusion about many of the comments. COBOL can be used for online system and performance wise a 16 MB (M not G) even for a small mainframe (PC on P5!) can sup

Confusion about many of the comments. COBOL can be used for online system and performance wise a 16 MB (M not G) even for a small mainframe (PC on P5!) can support 1000 uses easily. Whilst it is totally dated, no one support and IBM charge a lot - None is related to cobol, or cics or ims ... For the floating point part ... not using those. Most of the attention is to handle and agree upon how to do exact calc inclding reminder. No rounding per sec in the system. Nothing lose. Not even one cent. Hence, floating point ... And change it to c, ada etc. It is English programming language. The hard part is to translate and test. And explain to use decmical as exact number. ... lots of project has successfully migrated. But unless you get that right - cobol is not slow and it is an exact number computation with in depth business know-how, good luck.