Misunderstanding the Need for “COBOL Programmers”

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Misunderstanding the Need for “COBOL Programmers”

Posted May 7, 2020 | Leadership | Technology |

Rapid and unprecedented changes to the unemployment laws have created both a tidal wave of transactions that need to be processed, and significant changes to the programmed business processes that execute those transactions. Those business processes are entombed in old COBOL code on old mainframe systems. People are starting to panic about needing COBOL programmers. Yes, but.…

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Andy Maher

Andy Maher is an IT professional who concentrates in enterprise architecture, business intelligence, metadata management, systems integration, knowledge management, and solutions for a whole range of impossible problems. He has written extensively on data warehousing and systems architecture. Mr. Maher has spent the last 10 years working “in the channel,” involved in all aspects of the distribution business, with a concentration in BI and B2B… Read More

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Misunderstanding the Need for “COBOL Programmers”

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