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The so-called “COBOL Skills Shortage” is compelling many organizations to impetuously hire and train programmers to maintain, support, and attempt to modernize their COBOL systems. But understanding how to write COBOL is not enough — developers have to comprehend what an application actually does and how code changes can impact the system as a whole […]
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 […]
Software must evolve to stay effective, which makes application maintenance a persistent and growing obligation, especially for organizations with large, legacy systems. Changing marketplaces, compliance updates, security patches, hardware improvements, bug fixes, and process updates all drive code changes. In his book, Building Maintainable Software: Ten Guidelines for Future-Proof Code, Software Improvement Group Co-founder and […]
Phase Change announces the launch of its initial product website – CobolColleague.com. The website will support the company’s market entry product, COBOL Colleague, the first cognitive tool for software development, by targeting organizations that rely on COBOL-based applications for critical business operations. The CobolColleague.com website details how COBOL Colleague will assist COBOL reliant organizations with their […]
Discover how software developers are like archaeologists, and why understanding source code – the key to software development – involves a lot more than digging. Software engineers are often called developers. However, according to a number of experienced programmers, they spend the great majority of their time (78%) simply searching and understanding existing software, and […]
