IBM is releasing a free course and forum next week to teach COBOL programming language, as US states struggle to find programmers for old unemployment systems
Many systems that process unemployment claims still run on a 60-year-old programming language that barely any coders understand.
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@sub8u
Subrahmanyam Kvj
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Back to the future! https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
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@2rkiva
Rox Kulliye
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Thinking 🤔 Many of COBAL programmers were denied #unemployment benefits for the past 30 years, #selfemployed. They lost their contracts to overseas workers. #COBOL #KARMA now departments of labor is trying to hire coders to add self employed line, extended benefits & more. https:…
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@digitaldutta
Srinivas Kodali
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IBM is offering free COBOL training to address lack of engineers to handle unemployment systems. Y2K all over guys. https://www.inputmag.com/...
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@zelaurent
Laurent Maisonnave
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COBOL is trendy again. Last time, it was to fix the 2K bug. 2000, 2020... there is a patern 😂 https://twitter.com/...
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@codinghorror
Jeff Atwood
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Well, all things considered, could be worse, at least it's not PHP https://www.inputmag.com/...
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@jordannovet
Jordan Novet
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‘Every 10 years a COBOL skills crisis arises.’ -former IBMer Don Resnik https://blogs.wsj.com/... https://twitter.com/...
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@originalpsp
Patrick Scott Patterson
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Which is the more amazing headline: New Jersey needing COBOL programmers to help fix their (obviously) obsolete unemployment computer system or the governor calling it “Cobalt” COBOL is 60 years old. Calling all personal computer OGs!
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@2rkiva
Rox Kulliye
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API is the way. Billions paid to prime contractors every year, many of independent cobalt programmers were unemployed for many years after 911, while their jobs shipped overseas. Maintenance of old systems are profitable. Lobbyists, & elected officials are delighted renewing it. …
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@jmertic
John Mertic
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Over 100 #COBOL programmers have made themselves available in response to COVID-19 in just over 24 hours. I am truely #humbled by the #mainframe #community and @OpenMFProject! https://community.openmainframeproject. org/ ...
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@shadowdoc
Marc Kohli MD
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Fascinating! IBM to offer free COBOL training to support unemployment requests (unpacking http://apple.news/ link) https://www.inputmag.com/... https://twitter.com/...
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@seikatsu
Sten Tamkivi
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This is the best illustration to the importance of the “no legacy” strategy @taavikotka pushed as CIO for Estonian e-government systems: “we don't fund maintaining production code older than 13 years” https://www-inputmag-com.cdn.ampproject .org/ ...