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The continuing departure of experienced mainframe legacy software engineers from the workforce is driving the potentially devastating lack of system knowledge and expertise now confronting businesses and governments around the world. These mainframes surreptitiously run the global building blocks of society, from government systems to banking and financial markets and healthcare and insurance industries. Phase […]
A technical paper co-authored by current and former Phase Change research scientists, and presented at the 2021 annual ICSME event, won a Distinguished Paper Award from the IEEE Computer Society Technical Council on Software Engineering (TCSE). The paper, “Contemporary COBOL: Developers’ Perspectives on Defects and Defect Location,” was co-authored by current Phase Change Senior Research […]
The International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME) 2021 accepted a technical paper authored by current and former Phase Change research scientists for presentation at its 37th annual event in Luxembourg City, Great Duchy of Luxembourg, September 27 – October 1. The paper, “Contemporary COBOL: Developers’ Perspectives on Defects and Defect Location,” was co-authored […]
A May 28 article published by TechRadar pro, and written by Phase Change President Steve Brothers, explains how the well-reported “COBOL skills shortage” is not really a fundamental problem for enterprises that rely on mainframe systems. The real challenge is application knowledge. Developers can learn COBOL in less than 6 months. What they can’t learn […]
In late April, Phase Change added the first international patent to our growing intellectual property (IP) portfolio when Israel approved our patent application for Machine-Based Instruction Editing technology. The Israeli patent is the company’s fifth patent award since May 2019. Machine-Based Instructional Editing, which is now patent protected in the U.S. and Israel, is a […]
The so-called “COBOL Skills Shortage” is compelling many organizations to impetuously hire and train programmers to maintain, support, and attempt to modernize their COBOL systems. But understanding how to write COBOL is not enough — developers have to comprehend what an application actually does and how code changes can impact the system as a whole […]
