Watsonx: IBM's code assistant for turning COBOL into Java

This is a management problem. Lack of long-term planning. People knew COBOL was "feature complete" DECADES ago.

"If it ain't broke - don't fix it." does not mean "don't maintain the things you own - just let them run until they break - then fix them."

I hate to break this to you (large financial here, large COBOL installed base) but we're not just sitting around watching it run. We have hundreds of COBOL programmers, and they actually touch the code. I bet every day even. Crazy, right?

Just because some low-knowledge 'journalist' in a low-content rag decorates their ad-delivery with a low-effort 'you should have outrage about something' articles doesn't mean you should buy into it.

Curious if you happen to have a ball-park figure on what 2023 compensation looks like for a COBOL programmer