cobol & mainframes

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Seems that COBOL still used, only because the existence of

• BS2000 produced by Siemens (1970) acquired by Fujitsu https://www.theregister.com/2022/02/25/fujitsu_signposts_the_end_for/
• OS/2200 produced by Unisys Corporation (1967), still using old version of COBOL... The mentioned 'ClearPath' is just an eclipse IDE.
• AS/400 produced by IBM (1988) still updating the COBOL now days. On AS/400 user can write COBOL or RPG language_(by IBM)
• Z produced by IBM (2006) is using z/OS allows user to develop on C , C++, COBOL, PL/I Fortan -- https://www.ibm.com/products/zos

dbase systems supported by those mainframes :

• IBM DB2 (widely used) https://www.ibm.com/products/db2
• IMS https://www.ibm.com/products/ims
• Adabas https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADABAS

Connecting to a DB2 database by using COBOL
https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/wdfrhcw...ns-connecting-db2-database-by-using-cobol-pli

 

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A Minecraft server written in COBOL
https://github.com/meyfa/CobolCraft

Building the System/360 Mainframe Nearly Destroyed IBM
https://spectrum.ieee.org/building-the-system360-mainframe-nearly-destroyed-ibm

Connecting an IBM 3151 ASCII terminal to an IBM mainframe computer
video

IBM Z17 - integrates advanced AI into hybrid cloud
https://www.ibm.com/products/z17 [2]

2025 - Any active COBOL devs here? What are you working on?

Webbol - A minimal static web server written in COBOL
https://github.com/jmsdnns/webbol