Learning COBOL: A Journey for the Modern Programmer – HedgeDoc
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HN comment orderBeen doing COBOL for the past five years, so it's been my main thing since leaving school. A on of insurance companies, banks, telcos, airlines and old government systems for anything related to healthcare and taxes still use it and it's not all IBM Mainframes. I think IKEA just recently migrated away from it but a lot of companies with old inventory systems still do use COBOL. The language is easy, systems and products gigantic, your mentors write their code…
Does anyone know of any good resources for learning basics of JCL, datasets, jobs, the z/OS Host and so on? I find that when I look at the screens of my mainframe colleagues, the COBOL code is actually the only thing I can wrap my head around, as opposed to all the weird mainframe tools built around it.
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| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
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| 2021-04-06 | Learning COBOL: A Journey for the Modern Programmer | moj3 | 2 | 0 |
| 2021-04-07 | Learning COBOL: A Journey for the Modern ProgrammerFirst breakout | jdcaballerov | 106 | 62 |
| 2023-03-20 | Learning COBOL: A Journey for the Modern Programmer – HedgeDoc | rbanffy | 2 | 0 |
| 2023-04-27 | Learning COBOL: A Journey for the Modern Programmer – HedgeDocBest thread · Latest 20+ point return | rbanffy | 114 | 52 |