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COBOL's enduring dominance
  • Oct 6, 2025

COBOL's enduring dominance

An estimated 220 billion to 800 billion lines of COBOL code remain in active use across global enterprises. Over 80% of organizations anticipate these systems will outlast their current workforce. COBOL Colleague transforms the workforce crisis into an opportunity by preserving the business intelligence embedded in your code—creating a permanent knowledge base that outlasts any individual developer.

You can use artificial intelligence to fix your broken code
  • Feb 23, 2022

You can use artificial intelligence to fix your broken code

Mainframe systems are used across industries and around the globe, with over 10,000 currently in worldwide use. They are relied on by some of our most important institutions, including 96 of the world’s 100 largest banks, nine out of 10 of the world’s biggest insurance companies, 23 of the 25 largest U.S. retailers, and 71 […]

How AI can support maintenance of aging government systems
  • Jul 21, 2021

How AI can support maintenance of aging government systems

Phase Change President Steve Brothers recently authored a contributed article for Nextgov.com about how artificial intelligence (AI) tools can help governments deal with the mainframe-developers skills shortage and continue to maintain critical legacy systems. The article, How AI Can Help with Critical Government System Maintenance Needs, describes how we should change the current industry strategy […]

Legacy system failures expose the application knowledge gap’s harmful risks
  • Feb 24, 2021

Legacy system failures expose the application knowledge gap’s harmful risks

Government system failures during the rush to provide public benefits to alleviate the economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic publicly exposed the mainframe knowledge crisis that also threatens financial institutions, healthcare providers, and many other organizations foundational to the world economy. Several states discovered the knowledge-gap’s potentially devastating consequences when waves of unemployment-claims poured into […]

IRS stimulus-check delivery faces knowledge gap challenges
  • Apr 1, 2020

IRS stimulus-check delivery faces knowledge gap challenges

A Reuters’ article published March 22, 2020, claims that the IRS will have difficulty delivering stimulus checks to help Americans endure the economic hardships caused by the mandated social-distancing protocols put in place to combat the COVID-19 global pandemic. The story, written by Washington, D. C., correspondent Andy Sullivan, explains how budget cuts and reliance […]