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IBM scrambles to find or train more COBOL programmers to help states:
The economic stresses of the coronavirus pandemic have created a surge in demand for COBOL programmers. Last week, for example, the governor of New Jersey put out a call for COBOL programmers to help fix problems with the software that runs the state's unemployment insurance system.
A new initiative from IBM seeks to connect states with experienced COBOL programmers—and to train a new generation of them.
"In the midst of the COVID-19 global pandemic, our clients are facing unprecedented circumstances," an IBM press release says. Some states "are in need of additional programming skills to make changes to COBOL—a language that has been widely reported to have an estimated 220 billion lines of code being actively used today."
A new online forum, co-sponsored by the Open Mainframe Project, aims to connect COBOL programmers to people wanting to hire them.
At least this time they're offering to pay.
Previously:
COBOL-Coding Volunteers Sought as Creaking Mainframes Slow New Jersey's Coronavirus Response
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 14 2020, @06:11PM (1 child)
What a horrible afterlife that would be - repeatedly raised as a zombie to fix the same damn code you worked on in life...
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Tuesday April 14 2020, @06:39PM
In the year 9997 we will have transporters, replicators, unlimited energy and resources for all. That will be about the year everyone suddenly realizes the Y10K problem. All code will need to be updated for five digit years. There will be a sudden demand for people who know COBOL.
Then there will be the Y100K problem. Etc.
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