Seeking to replace millions of lines of COBOL at the SSA, the US Department of Government Efficiency should consider the adage, ‘If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it,’ experts say.

As the Common Business Oriented Language, COBOL has a long and storied history. To this day it’s quite literally the financial bedrock for banks, businesses and financial institutions ...

At the heart of this story lies COBOL, a programming language that has been Social Security's backbone for decades. COBOL, or Common Business Oriented Language, was developed in the 1950s and has ...

We list the best COBOL online courses, to make it simple and easy to learn the legacy COBOL programming language online. Although old, it still remains essential for many systems used by ...

The Department of Government Efficiency aims to migrate the SSA's infrastructure away from its decades-old COBOL programming language in just a few months. Experts warn that such an aggressive ...

Languages: English. Discussions of Social Security Administration (SSA) fraud from Elon Musk have prompted criticism over the federal government's use of COBOL, a software system that critics ...

The project is being organized by Elon Musk lieutenant Steve Davis, multiple sources who were not given permission to talk to the media tell WIRED, and aims to migrate all SSA systems off COBOL ...

An aging programming language known as COBOL underpins much of the U.S. financial industry, but it has fallen out of favor among coders. This sets up a problem when systems run into glitches or ...

The report shows there are just 17 priority-1 bugs left. One major new feature was merged just last week: a COBOL front end.

Yes, Social Security Administration systems that rely on COBOL need to be updated. No, Elon, it can't be done quickly. The Social Security Administration (SSA) payment system has more than 60 ...

The Louisiana Office of Motor Vehicles is experiencing intermittent outages due to issues with its COBOL mainframe. Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry declared a State of Emergency due to the outages ...

Part of the confusion comes from Social Security's software system based on the COBOL programming language, which has a lack of date type. This means that some entries with missing or incomplete ...