The COBOL programming language for IBM mainframes. In 1994, IBM dropped support of OS/VS COBOL, which conformed to ANSI 68 and 74 standards and limited a program's address space to 16 bits.

The greatest advancement in modern COBOL updates was likely in the COBOL 2002 version of the standard— per IBM's coverage, this iteration adds several object-oriented features and other "advanced ...

Other tools that promise to convert COBOL apps to Java syntax can make code that’s difficult to maintain and unrecognizable to Java developers, according to IBM. And currently available AI ...

COBOL typically worked with what are called flat-file systems or hierarchical databases, such as the Information Management System by IBM or even older file formats such as the Virtual Storage ...