Take back control of your Cobol assets / migrate
Take back control of your Cobol assets / migrate Cobol, the symbol of "IT debt" The "Cobol" teams are being reduced The oldest part of information systems ("legacy system") is in the hands of a population of specialists whose number continues to shrink. This is the case of Cobol specialists. And these teams are often overwhelmed with requests. The decommissioning of Cobol is constantly postponed Rather than removing or transforming the oldest technical layers, typically the Cobol layer, companies have piled them on so as not to take any risks. It is also true that the Cobol has acquitted itself well of its mission so far! Thus in many companies, the problem has been circumvented at the start of the most recent technologies, to adapt and manage the old data formats ("ascending compatibility"). This for a very long time now. But this state of affairs is not irremediable. We will have to start by "opening up" the system,