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The article focuses on technical skills and people who need to acquire them. Which may be a problem but I don't think it is the root cause of the COBOL problem
by praptak 6y ago
The article focuses on technical skills and people who need to acquire them. Which may be a problem but I don't think it is the root cause of the COBOL problem as a whole.
There are organizations which dug themselves into the COBOL hole. What are they doing to get people to learn the skills necessary to deal with the next crisis?
- pjmlp 6y agoTeaching them Visual Cobol or NetCobol, :) https://www.microfocus.com/en-us/products/visual-cobol/overview https://www.microfocus.com/en-us/products/visual-cobol/overv... https://www.fujitsu.com/global/products/software/developer-tool/netcobol/index.html https://www.fujitsu.com/global/products/software/developer-t... Who knows, that cool Kubernetes microservice deployed on Amazon might have been written in Cobol, https://www.microfocus.com/media/success-story/trasmediterranea-acciona_tcm6-210848.pdf https://www.microfocus.com/media/success-story/trasmediterra...
- dwheeler 6y agoThe Linux Foundation's "Open Mainframe Project" has a free COBOL training course. More info here: https://www.openmainframeproject.org/projects/coboltrainingcourse https://www.openmainframeproject.org/projects/coboltrainingc...