alt Hacker NewsThis is what people miss about COBOL. It's not like people are compiling COBOL and running it on Linux on an x86 box. They are running it on legacy operating systems (and hardware) which provide a different set of underlying services. It's a whole different planet.
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WesleyJohnson • 10/02/2024
We're running RM/COBOL on RHEL8 VMs backed powered by VMware. I don't work with it, I'm in a different IT area, but our COBOL codebase supports the lion's share of our day-to-day operations.
Negativo friendo.
The mainframe is turning into a middleware layer running on Enterprise Linux. We've containerized the mainframe at this point, and I mean that directly - eg. Running jcl, multiple CICS regions, all in COBOL that originated on z/OS is now running in k8s on amd64.