Talking COBOL: Source-Code Recovery for IBM Z Modernization

“The world is running on COBOL,” says IBM’s Tom Ross, aka Captain COBOL. He’s not exaggerating: Some 220 billion lines of COBOL process $3 trillion worth of commerce every day – and 1.5 billion new lines are written each year. Modernization is constant, and that can present challenges when the time comes to compile updated programs. “When programs don’t get touched for a period of time, they become forgotten,” observes Jim Rahm, co-founder of Source Recovery. “You can’t fix the pr...