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		ang_cire on Oct 1, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: COBOL has been “dead” for so long, my grandpa wrot... They absolutely are. Modern COBOL (even 25 year old COBOL) isn't running on ancient System360/370/390s or something, it's running on modern z/OS mainframes.

cwbriscoe on Oct 5, 2024 [–]

Yup, Z/OS even has an AIX subsystem these days. I have had to use it for some java decryption software and to use it to do some ebcdic to ascii conversion.

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