The Shreveport Times12d
What is COBOL, and why should it matter to Louisiana residents in wake of OMV outages?
The Louisiana Office of Motor Vehicles is experiencing intermittent outages due to issues with its COBOL mainframe. Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry declared a State of Emergency due to the outages ...
SD Times4y
Open Mainframe Project aims to fill COBOL skills gap
The Open Mainframe Project is looking to fill a technology skills gap by providing COBOL resources to the public sector. According to the project, more than 10 million people in the United ...
DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Code Base in Months, Risking Benefits and System Collapse
Social Security systems contain tens of millions of lines of code written in COBOL, an archaic programming language. Safely ...
Opinion
DOGE Plans to Rewrite Entire Social Security Codebase in Just ‘a Few Months’: Report
Everything from the code that issues Social Security numbers to the payment schedules are written in COBOL, which was created in the 1950s, but the DOGE team seems to believe it can make a snap ...
Yahoo12d
What is COBOL, and why should it matter to Louisiana residents in wake of OMV outages?
OMV announced on its website on March 20 that the Louisiana Office of Technology Services was investigating a frequent intermittent outage affecting the COBOL mainframe. According to the governor ...